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Thursday, September 27th, 2007
So this week I’ve spent two days teaching other people the basics of standards and accessibility at one of the University’s spin-offs: Media Skills. The course was aptly titled: Getting Up to Standard with Web Accessibility.
Monday, July 30th, 2007
Inspired by this thread at Accessify Forums I’ve put together my own top five most hated excuses for not producing a decently accessible site.
Wednesday, June 13th, 2007
I’ll probably write some more coherant thoughts later, but suffice to say I think this year’s @media was pretty good. I enjoy it as a chance to meet like minds and discuss ideas, this year I found myself really grooving on the presentations too. Possibly it’s ideally pitched at my eclectic skillset.
On the design side, I really enjoyed Jon Hick’s Creative Sponge talk, which was a great summary of pulling together diverse inspirational elements and a nice insight on his creative process. Jason Santa Maria’s Devilish Details talk was a great look at core design principles. Mark Boulton’s Typography presentation was a look at type through a martial arts lense.
Over in the development world Dan Webb’s Javascript talk included a few nice details (including one very tasty testing and debugging tool) and Nate Koechley did a sterling job on high performance sites.
I got to catch up with a few folks. Special shoutout to Simon Mackie, one of my old colleagues from glasshaus who was over here representing Sitepoint (and who provided me with an elegant orange T-Shirt).
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