Speakers: Henny Swan

Session

Have you got the X Factor? Building websites for mobile and disabled users

Making your content mobile ready goes a long way to making it accessible to people with disabilities and vice versa. In this presentation I'll introduce common barriers that mobile and disabled users face, shared solutions, tools to help you debug pages for both desktop and mobile browsing. We'll also look at who's browsing what and the business case for accessible mobile content.

Bio

A major area of interest for Henny is web standards in general and how internationalisation and mobile access complement web accessibility. Having started out working for a search engine in China in the late 90's she then went to work for UK charity RNIB as a Senior Web Accessibility Consultant. Now Henny is a Web Evangelist for Opera promoting web standards and one web everywhere.

Henny is an active member of the Web Accessibility Initiative Education and Outreach Working Group as well as joint lead of the Web Standards Project (WaSP) International Liaison Working Group (ILG). She speaks at various international conferences and contributes to the Opera Developer Network and blog as well as her own blog iheni, which looks at accessibility, internationalisation and mobile access.

Outside of work Henny kick boxes, subjects people to her Chinese cooking, as well as hangs out in Second Life. She also raises funds to buy equipment for a 4 your old friend of hers called Sam who was paralysed in a car accident at Stuff4Sam.