Posted in Accessibility, Conferences on Jan 12th, 2009
It’s taken a bit of time to get the first two out the door but you can now catch the first two videos and transcripts from Scripting Enabled: Denise Stephens on Multiple Sclerosis: she also talks about an online community she set up called Enabled by design. Antonia Hyde on learning difficulties: you can also [...]
Posted in Conferences on Nov 27th, 2008
According to CNET Asia, Google announced ActiveX support for Google Chrome in Korea yesterday. I was particularly disappointed to read this as it reinforces crappy standards support and locking people into using certain browsers and denying choice. Of course I would say this being an Opera employee however with my Opera hat off I can [...]
Posted in Conferences, Mobile on Nov 19th, 2008
I attended the Future of the Mobile Web conference in London on Monday run by Carsonified. It was a really informative day jam packed with speakers from all aspects of the mobile world. It was also a great day for meeting new people such as Simon Mackie from the Carsonified team, blogger Vero Pepperrell aka [...]
Posted in Accessibility, Conferences, Mobile on Oct 21st, 2008
The much anticipated Head Conference is almost upon us with presentations starting October 24th 16:00 UTC. I just know this is going to be a great conference and a lot of fun with so many great and passionate speakers covering every angle of the web today via the web. I’ll be speaking on Two birds [...]
Posted in Accessibility, Conferences on Sep 22nd, 2008
It all started in April at Accessibility 2.0 when Antonia Hyde, during her presentation on Rich Media for People with Learning Difficulties asked: is it too much to have a multimedia player that people with learning disabilities can use? A certain Flame Haired Warrior, Chris Heilmann, just so happened to be sitting in the audience [...]
Posted in Accessibility, Conferences on Aug 13th, 2008
Bored with accessibility? Over AJAX, ARIA? Can’t face yet another Jaws demo for dummies? Struggling to find a challenge in checklists… This year myself, Lisa Herrod (Scenariogirl) and Glenda Sims (Goodwitch) are hoping to present a panel on Aging, Cognition & Deafness: The Quirky Corners of Web Accessibility at SXSWi 2009 and we really need [...]