Big kudos to Matt Herzberger and the rest of the team at Texas A&M for putting on a Web Accessibility Showcase this week. If you’re not able to be there this week, it’s streaming on ustream.tv. I’ll be presenting there tomorrow at 1330, Central US time.
Help Knowbility and others fight the University of Texas’s decision to close the Accessibility Institute by signing the petition.
I work with accessibility in technology. I do it because I believe it is the right thing to do. I am also one who believes all ideas can be taken too far and the proposals being made in the city of Austin for mandated accessible homes are examples of an idea being taken too far. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Dr. John Slatin, founding Director of the Accessibility Institute at the University of Texas, mentor, inspiration and quite simply a force in the push for accessible technology, is saying goodbye after a long fight with leukemia.
Anything I say will pail in comparison to the words and images he wrote down during his treatment in [...]