Can you help with a few bucks for this kickstarter program to bring Sight.Sound.Soul. with Henry Butler to the Southwest Conference on Disability in October in Albuquerque. The Southwest Conference on Disability is, one of the largest disability conferences in the country, will include hundreds of people with disabilities – just the audience who will [...]
Education and Technology folks are gathered in Phildelphia this week for the 2011 conference of the ISTE. The conference is still in progress. Early blog posts about it have been very enthusiastic. ISTE is about advancing education through innovative use of technology. Image Credit: kjarrett. Can you say “excited?” EduTechGeek is excited. All I can [...]
Find out about the Games for Change event this June. Getting the jetBlues. Derek Featherstone explains why Jet Blue is being sued for having an inaccessible web site. A basic HTML5 Template shows you the skeleton of an HTML5 page. Re the Urban Outfitters copying designs and the power of social media: Sharing Gets More [...]
My presentation about HTML5 and Accessibility at AccessU was a three hour workshop with discussion and lab exercises. You can see the slides for some hint as to what I talked about. They are available at slideshare.net/vdebolt.
I went to Glenda Sims session at AccessU and ended up sitting by Matt May from Adobe and Dennis Lembree. You’d think with them right next to me, the iPhone camera would have done better, alas. Glenda gave some great tips for making the most of Dreamweaver’s accessibility features. She also mentioned that WCAG 2.0 [...]
Attorney Lainey Feingold was the first speaker of the day at John Slatin AccessU. She talked about how to work cooperatively with companies to bring them into accessibility. In 15 years of helping companies implement accessibility – which she calls a civil right – she’s only had to go to litigation once.
A few of the folks staying at the Wyndham Hotel in Austin to take part in AccessU. In the front you see Dennis Lembree from RIM who is delivering the keynote during the event.
I’m trying to get myself organized to participate in AccessU where I’m slated to lead a 3 hour workshop in HTML5 and Accessibility. I’ll be out of pocket a bit, but hope to be able to post a few photos from the event here next week. You could almost say that everything I’ve learned about [...]
Don’t leave your users in the dark! As web professionals, we all agree it’s essential to ensure that everyone, including people with disabilities, sees, hears and interacts easily with everything we develop. Learn how to make sure your site and applications universally accessible at AccessU. What is AccessU? AccessU is Knowbility’s annual training conference offering [...]
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