standards-next.org http://standards-next.org Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:22:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Cognition and accessibility http://standards-next.org/2009/cognition-and-accessibility/ http://standards-next.org/2009/cognition-and-accessibility/#comments Sat, 26 Sep 2009 10:10:13 +0000 Henny http://standards-next.org/?p=47 We had another packed and informative meetup last Saturday dipping into the world of cognition and accessibility thanks to our  wonderful line up of speakers:

Our speakers triggered some really good debate around not just the fundamentals of design and copy for easier processing but also the role of the browser to help people customise content to make it easier to digest (which Bruce and I have taken back to Opera) as well as styling of forms, buttons, links and the dangers of lightboxes.

One of the best things about meetups like this is the collaboration that comes out of it so it’s been great to see a number of people take the issues around lightboxes and start to look at how we can make them more accessible for all users both in terms of how we understand and interact with them and how we them them technically accessible . Watch this space as I’ll blog any outcomes.

There’s been lots of coverage of the event over blogs and Twitter so I’ll hand it over here to the following write ups. If you know of any others or have suggestions of links or tools let us know.

]]> http://standards-next.org/2009/cognition-and-accessibility/feed/ 622 HTML5 meetup http://standards-next.org/2009/html5-meetup/ http://standards-next.org/2009/html5-meetup/#comments Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:08:19 +0000 Bruce http://standards-next.org/?p=60

  • Dean Edwards

    Dean was an original member of the WHAT-WG, the group that began the HTML 5 spec, and creator of the legendary IE 7 JavaScript library. Watch him demo his JavaScript library that plugs the holes in browser HTML 5 support.

  • Steve Faulkner

    Steve works for accessibility consultancy, The Paciello Group. He’ll talk about the accessibility of the HTML 5 spec and how it might integrate with WAI-ARIA for your education, entertainment and edification. (Steve Faulkner: HTML 5 accessibility, slides.)

  • Molly E. Holzschlag

    Your Mistress of Ceremonies for the day, Molly E. Holzschlag is a well-known Web standards advocate, instructor, and author. She evangelises Open Web Standards for Opera and is the design and development community liaison to the W3C CSS Working Group.

  • Martin Kliehm

    Martin has been experimenting with the HTML 5 canvas element and will show a few home-brewed examples. He is a web standards and accessibility expert working for Namics in Frankfurt, a member of the Webkrauts and the International Liaison Group of the Web Standards Project. (Martin Kliehm: HTML 5 canvas slides, video demoes, links)

  • Bruce Lawson

    Bruce has been experimenting with actually using HTML 5 on his personal website, the crazy fool. Previously the technical lead for the Solicitors Regulation Authority, he now evangelises Open Web Standards for Opera. He’ll be delighting and amazing the audience with an overview of the new semantics available in HTML 5. Thrill to header, footer, aside, figure, section, and article! Join him welcoming back accesskey like a prodigal son and weeping for what might have been with the time element. (Bruce Lawson: HTML 5 – Are you mything the point slides, demoes, video.)

  • Remy Sharp

    Remy is a Brighton-based JavaScripter who runs jQuery for Designers and the full frontal JavaScript conference. Prepare to laugh and cry as Remy discusses some of HTML 5’s new APIs, which include the Microdata API, History and Location to support back button support for Ajax apps, drag and drop, the editing API and Server-sent event.

    Whether or not you speaka-da-JavaScript, Remy will give you an overview of the potential power of the proposed spec. (Remy Sharp: HTML 5 JavaScript APIs slides, video, demoes.)

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