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Get your accessibility on: John Slatin AccessU open for registration

Get on the cutting edge of compliant, universal design and learn accessibility from top experts! Attendees at AccessU will engage with world renowned accessibility experts to improve design skills and to understand the both the need and the techniques for inclusive IT design. From the basics to the bleeding edge, AccessU will provide the resources [...]

9 reasons why you should go to SXSWi

SXSW Interactive. What’s the big deal? Why should you go? Here’s the story in pictures. They should explain everything. 1. You can hear great presentations. 2. You can meet people from around the world. 3. You can hear experts explain how they do what they do. 4. You can chat with everyone and find contacts. [...]

How I Use Tumblr to Help with Writing

You can do many things with Tumblr, but I use it for something very specific. When I’m researching a topic and want to gather up a set of links over a period of several days or weeks about that topic, I save the link on Tumblr. When I’m ready to put the information together in [...]

My Saturday

A little off topic treat for you showing what I did on Saturday. If you are in Central New Mexico and interested in Tai Chi, here’s a link to my sifu’s website.

HTML5 opportunities at AccessU West 2011

AccessU West 2011 is a Knowbility training event January 10-12, 2011 at San Jose State University. There are two days of sessions, with a full day of post conference workshops that go even more in depth with accessibility information. As part of the normal two-day conference schedule, I’ll be teaching HTML5 and Accessibility. My class [...]

Useful links: Fronteers, Open Web, OAuth

Video from all the Fronteers events are now available. Take a look at the lineup. Some good choices there. Speaking of sharing slides and information from events, Christian Heilman is sharing is slides from his An Open Web for All Talk. Gentle introduction to OAuth is at Opera Dev.

AccessU West 2011

AccessU West 2011 is a Knowbility training event January 10-12, 2011 at San Jose State University. There are two days of sessions, with a full day of post conference workshops that go even more in depth with accessibility information. AccessU West offers classes on how to make electronic information technology accessible to everyone – including [...]

My Week Watching Grace Hopper from a Land Far, Far Away

The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing is over for 2010. There was considerable enthusiasm for the event coming out of Atlanta in the form of tweets, blog posts, and photographs. Here’s a taste of what I saw from afar. If you were there and can provide additional links and photos, please leave a [...]

Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing begins today

GHC10 is the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing for 2010. It runs from Sept. 28 to Oct. 2 in Atlanta. The conference is sold out, which is a wonderful thing to hear. This video from 1986 lets you learn something about Grace Hopper — like why she deserves to have a conference named [...]

Useful links: student web conference, transparent borders, usability, app developers, getting started

The 2011 Student Web Conference is in January and it’s free. Students need to attend this, instructors and web educators need to be supporting the event and speaking at it. This is a great thing! Hooray to Zac Gordon for getting this conference going. (And next year there will be women in the speakers list, [...]