R. Pavlíček: Accesibility: back to the roots (30 min.)
- Design Hall
- cs › en
Web accesibility is often viewed as something that's expensive, hard to implement, does not pay off and is done for very small group of visitors.
Radek Pavlíček will show you, that it isn't always true. He will tell you about accesibility principles with very interesting cost to visitors' gain ratio. He will also explain how these rules help not only people with various disabilites but all your visitors.
Radek Pavlíček (CZ)
Accessibility guru at Blind Friendly Web
Radek has been actively engaged in accessibility since 2000 with the Blind Friendly Web project. He is the author of Blind Friendly Web methodology and co-author of Czech accessibility rules for government web sites. He also writes about accessibility on his POSLEPU (blindfolded)– blog – currently the only regularly updated source about accessibility in Czech. He writes occasionally for the Zdroják magazine and other periodicals.
Radek is working for the nonprofit TyfloCentrum Brno. His main job is managing a department that provides a number of special services in the field of computer technology to people with severe visual impairment. He works part-time for the Guidance Center for accessible Web SONS ČR, where he's responsible for methodology for creating an accessible web.