The conference that inspired me to start Scripting Enabled, Accessibility2.0 just released transcripts and audio files of all the presentations, including my “Fencing in the habitat”: [slideshare id=372843&doc=fencinginthehabitat-1209163055552778-9&w=425] Transcription of ‘Fencing in the habitat’ Audio of ‘Fencing in the habitat’ Thanks to AbilityNet for releasing all the transcripts and offering them for us to enjoy. […]

When I taught a bunch of students last month the ways of the DOM and explained progressive enhancement they were very happy about the ideas but rightfully exclaimed that DOM scripting can get verbose and repetitive. This is when I had to idea to write ViewsHandler , a small framework to write DOM applications. ViewsHandler […]

I just came back from Stanford where I talked about Scripting Enabled, what lead to it, how I build Easy YouTube and generally how giving hack events and unconferences an accessiblity spin can rejuvenate the movement and drive innovation. The slides are available here and the video will follow once Stanford has finished captioning it. […]

Next Thursday, the 14th of August I’ll be guest at Stanford University to give a talk about accessibility hacking and Scripting Enabled. Get all the details on the Stanford Online Accessibility Program Site

This was a question from one of the attendees of my JavaScript course, and here is one solution: function getIDsAndClasses(elm,parent){ var elm = elm || ‘*’; if(typeof parent !== ‘undefined’){ if(typeof parent === ‘string’){ var parent = document.getElementById(parent) || document; } } else { var parent = document; } var elms = parent.getElementsByTagName(elm); var ids […]