If you are interested in Accessible Technology, then you should know there’s been another step made in implementing WCAG 2.0. This is snipped from an email I got this afternoon:
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group is excited to announce the publication of WCAG 2.0 as a W3C Candidate Recommendation on 30 April. WCAG [...]
I’m working on one of the larger coding projects I’ve ever done and as such, it’s a great time to think about minimizing code wherever possible. The single stylesheet is growing large, and we’re using quite a bit of javascript code. These two things equal performance hit, especially on older computers. One great way to [...]
Beer and web design. If you’re in Austin, the The Austin Web Design & Developer Meetup is tonight at Gingerman. Pints, pals, and code. Love it.
Alex is asking for input on how to bridge the high-tech creative communities here in Austin. We’ve got several growing, active tech circles, Refresh Austin, Austin on Rails, Geek Austin, and more, and the question is where do we go from here?
A couple of coworking initiatives (LaunchPad, Conjunctured) are growing here in Central Texas, which [...]
Registration is now open for the 2008 accessible technology conference, held May 6 and 7 at St. Edwards University in Austin, TX.
I’m proud to take part in this annual training conference, produced by Knowbility. The conference is for anyone involved in IT, particularly the Web, and who wants to help make the Web a better [...]
It’s CSS Naked Day 2008. Time to expose your naked <body> to the world. What the hell am I talking about?
The idea is to promote Web Standards. Semantic, clean XHTML combined with proper site structure should make a site usable and accessible without relying on CSS. Do you have alt attributes for your images? [...]
Welcome to the web site for Pat Ramsey, an accessibility consultant and web designer based in Austin, Texas. A device-independent Web is my dream and I believe we can achieve that with style - an accessible Web doesn't have to be a poorly designed Web.