Presentation: HTML5 and Accessibility sitting in a tree

Bruce went to down to London to present at the Accessibility London unconference. His theme was that, contrary to the belief of some accessibility consultants, HTML5 doesn't hate accessibility (or disabled people), but that it attempts to build accessibility in rather than bolt in on as an afterthought with extra special markup or WAI-ARIA.

The talk was recorded; when the video is available, I'll post a link.

Some links from the talk:

• Introduction to HTML5 video: tutorial from first principles by Bruce and Patrick Lauke
• Patrick Lauke's All HTML5 + CSS3 video player and bonus Fancy Swap video player (both Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 - licensed, so take them and go!)
• Top 20 class names on HTML elements
• Top 20 id names on HTML elements
• HTML5 forms demo
• Easy YouTube (using YouTube's bolt-on API to make a simpler interface)
• Video for Everybody
• Archive.org conversion and hosting service
• Miro Video Converter (simple drag and drop conversion utility)
• Gecko Full Screen API
• <track> element specification
• Playr captioning polyfill
• mediaElement.js - polyfill for captioning and faking JS API in Flash for old browsers
• Specification: synchronising multiple media elements (NB still liable to change)
• getUserMedia Magic HTML5 Moustache demo (accessing camera from JavaScript)
• WebRTC project (for in-browser video conferencing)

dev.Opera has more articles on HTML5 and Open Web Standards. I also co-curate HTML5doctor.