More about Andrea Hill, personal and professional goals and achievements

Podcamp Ohio

June 24, 2008

I’ve noticed that @podcampohio has been following me on twitter for awhile, but hadn’t thought too much of it. Today, however, a colleague at work asked if I was attending this weekend. While I hadn’t really thought about it (and already have plans mid-day), I checked out the line-up, and made a quick decision to [...]

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Making RIAs Accessible – Slides

June 6, 2008

Here are the slides from my second presentation from Spring <br />. Coming into this presentation, I was less nervous than about the first, which in some ways I believe contributed to a weaker presentation. I had asked the conference organizers if I would have the same audience in the two sessions, and it was [...]

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Web Accessibility Acronyms – Slides

June 5, 2008

As promised, here are the slides I presented at the Spring <br /> conference on Tuesday. Web Accessibility Acronyms was the first presentation of the breakout sessions, right after the morning keynote. I felt a bit nervous as I set up, but the proctor helping out was very nice and we chatted away before I [...]

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Resource Interactive Representation at Spring
2008

June 5, 2008

Spring Conference 2008 Originally uploaded by Phong Nguyen Resource Interactive was well-represented at the Spring <br /> conference this year. Matt Greene, Andrew Roth, Brad Boose, Phong Nguyen, and John Keber attended. Andrea Hill, Chris Flohr, Kris Schultz and Matt Sidesinger presented. Also in the picture is some random guy (named Eric Meyer?) who wanted [...]

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Web Accessibility Acronyms (conference teaser)

June 2, 2008

A few of the terms I’ll be covering in my session on Web Accessibility Acronyms tomorrow: Regulatory Compliance: Section 508 (VPAT), WCAG1.0, WCAG2.0, ADA, DDA  Involved Parties: W3C, WAI, United States Access Board, AIA Screen Readers: JAWS, Fire Vox, Window Eyes  APIs: MSAA, IAccessible2, UI Automation  RIA: WAI-ARIA, AxsJAX, AjaxAID

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Testing for Web Accessibility

June 1, 2008

This week I’ll be presenting two topics at Spring <br />, Web Accessibililty Acronyms and RIA Accessibility. As I was pulling together some resources to share, I pulled out a blog post I wrote for our Resource Interactive Technology blog. I figured I may as well share it here as well… Is your site accessible? [...]

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Lifestreaming at iCitizen

May 21, 2008

On May 20 and 21st, I was working at the “lifestreaming/blogging” station at the social media cafe at the iCitizen conference. The conference itself had the standard speakers and panels, and the cafe was a supplementary opportunity for conference delegates to learn more about, well, social media. There were four stations: “lifestreaming/blogging”, “community conversations”, “new [...]

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