Institutional Knowledge

Wherein we point to other people writing down stuff they know.

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For those who missed it or were unable to attend, You can view the slides from Accessibility Evaluation of Next Generation Web Applications.

I was glad to see that someone used S5 and gave a link to the slides. The best tidbit that I took away from this session was that WebAIM’s Wave 4.0 (when released) […]

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The Accessibility Experience

The power of the web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect - Tim Berners-Lee

The presentation by representatives from the User Experience Team at Google was a very insightful look into how they’re approaching accessibility.

Accessibility is more than just code compliance

Google is spending a fair […]

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Evolution of Firefox Accessibility provided some excellent insight into how the Mozilla Foundation is working to make Firefox accessible for those will all different types of disabilities. I was blown away at how many grants had been given to various individuals to work on accessibly for different components of Firefox.

One of the best resources that […]

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People dress up a lot nicer at CSUN than SXSW
If you’re going to host a conference, involving technology, provide free wi-fi

Wi-fi with a Signal to Noise Ratio of 1 == LTO

If you’re presenting…

Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse
Make your slides available online and list the URL at the end of your presentation
Less is more when it comes to […]

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So the IBM Case Study wasn’t exactly what I thought it would be. Basically, IBM has developed their own accessibility checklist which, if met, will mean 508 and WCAG 2.0 compliance. Creating your own standard is not the right answer as it is quite costly.

What I did find interesting is that there is a committee […]

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Live Bloggin… sort of…

So far I’ve heard a few session about WCAG 2.0 and the WAI part of W3C. Unfortunately most of the stuff we’re dealing with revolves around 508 so I’m tempted to write most of that stuff off. Especially after revisiting Joe Clarks To Hell with WCAG 2. That said, I’m waiting […]

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Once again I find myself trying to put into words the experience that is South by Southwest. SXSW is not training. SXSW is not a trade show. SXSW is, in the words of Zeldman, a zeitgeist of the what direction the Internet and web industry is headed. You don’t attend SXSW to learn anything in […]

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With the ATI project about to hit full swing, I sat in on a 30 minute power session as SXSW titled Accessified! Practical Accessibility Fixes Any Web Developer Can Use. Here are some notes and thoughts I took away from the session.

Don’t be a tool. Use One

There are pleanty of free tools out there for […]

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Perhaps one of the best sessions I attended at SXSW 2007 was Web Typography Sucks by Richard Rutter and Mark Boulton. In conjunction with the Grids are Good session and the world premiere of the documentary Helvetica, the Web Typography Sucks session re-enforced the idea that we as web developers/designers must not forget the understated […]

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