Last week I’ve been to Frankfurt to take part in the “European Accessibility Forum” in Frankfurt. I was one of the members of a panel discussing accessible web applications. Here are the slides which also have audio:

[slideshare id=1208652&doc=1208652]

There’s also a video of the panel available, here’s my part:

Christian Heilmann: Accessible Web Applications from Martin Kliehm on Vimeo.

Funnily enough, I can also be seen dubbed in German:

Christian Heilmann: Barrierefreie Web-Anwendungen from Martin Kliehm on Vimeo.

They’ve done a tremendous job translating what I am saying live, but I have to say that seeing me with a different German voice does my head in :)

You can watch all the conference videos coming in one by one by tracking the eafra tag on vimeo.

If you ever wondered how flexible web applications with hundreds of objects that need event handling are built, the trick behind it is called “Event Delegation”.

I didn’t come up with it, and it is nothing new either, but as some people seem to get confused when the term crops up, I’ve written a quick example why event delegation helps keeping web apps light and fast.