Making RIAs Accessible

May 5, 2008

My topic suggestion for Spring <br /> has been accepted. On June 3rd, I’ll be presenting the following: Topic: Making RIAs AccessibleDescription: Rich Internet Applications offer the site visitor a more interactive, engaging experience. But can this richness be conveyed to a user of assistive technologies, and how? This session will differentiate between DOM-based (AJAX) [...]

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“she’s got a great personality…..”

March 26, 2008

Today I received an introductory copy of the first chapter of “personality not included“. A great example of an OPEN brand, the author has shared the first chapter and encouraged bloggers to post about it, and will also be answering individual interviews with bloggers to post on the date of the official book launch. Sounds [...]

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SXSW – bandwagon jumping

August 28, 2007

thanks to my feedreader, I saw mention of SXSW from both Juicy Studio and Garrett Dimon‘s feeds. It got me thinking about all the folks I met in Austin back at Access U, and how they talked up the creative and technical magic that is South by SouthWest Interactive. I hadn’t even had time to [...]

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Architecting for the User Experience

June 14, 2007

Today I attended a three hour session at Microsoft on “Architecting for the User Experience“. It was geared towards architects and senior developers, so I thought I would check it out. The first half of the session was a generic “What is UX” spiel. The take-home? “UX is a bloodbath and you need to fight [...]

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An(other) Event Apart?

May 30, 2007

The other day Scott mentioned An Event Apart at work. Last year, 4 of our developers took a bit of a road trip up to Chicago, and I did enjoy it, if I felt a bit out of place with a Windows Laptop instead of a mac… Just now, rather than working, I found myself [...]

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SXSW

May 25, 2007

I just keep hearing more and more about South by Southwest (latest on Jeremy Keith’s blog). I really do think I’ll have to make the effort to go next year.. and hopefully have a reunion with the folks I met at access u?

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Conference free-throw wrap-up – sponsored by local ales

May 9, 2007

After the conference several of us descended on a local establishment for beer and conversation. I’ll admit, several of the folks were talking up South by Southwest pretty well! It was a really great chat: Jim Thatcher mentioned his connection with Sarah Swierenga (who used to work where I do, and with whom I’ve been [...]

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Testing for Web Accessibility – Access U

May 9, 2007

Notes here: http://www.afhill.com/blog/testing-for-web-accessibility-access-u/

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Moving Large Organizations Towards Accessibility and Standards – Access U

May 9, 2007

This session has been great; it refers to the 8 steps to introducing accessibility to your organization, but it really focusses on how to introduce it from a QA perspective. I think that’s a good way to rationalize the costs.. Notes here: http://www.afhill.com/blog/moving-large-organizations-towards-accessibility-and-standards-access-u/ Edit: I heard later (at the end of the conference) that one [...]

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Designing for Accessibility: Beauty Secrets of the CSS Masters – Access U

May 9, 2007

This session was held by Marla Erwin, who was one of the co-presenters of the accessible forms session yesterday. Notes here: http://www.afhill.com/blog/designing-for-accessibility-beauty-secrets-of-the-css-masters-access-u/

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