Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

Thanks to everybody who came along to the inaugural Multipack Presents. My slides of ARIA are below.

Thanks to my fellow presenters Bruce and Stuart for entertaining talks on HTML 5 and Javascript! And to Campaign Monitor for the sponsorship (great pizza)!

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Friday, February 13th, 2009

Part of my old job was helping people to use a virtual learning environment (VLE). I’d spend much of my time warning about the gotchas. Except, of course, that most of these were entirely avoidable user interface issues. Here’s an example:

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Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

On the 21st of February at the offices of One Black Bear, I’ll be part of Multipack Presents.

Along with Bruce and Stuart, I’ll be talking about emerging standards. In my case it’ll be WAI ARIA, emerging techniques for improving the accessibility of Javascript-based Rich Internet Applications.

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