September 2008 - Conference Round-Up: dConstruct 2008
September saw a lot of web conferences being held, some of which were attended by members of the Web Access Team.
Firstly we had dConstruct 2008, held in Brighton. The title of this year’s event was “Designing The Social Web”.
The day consisted of the following talks:
- Steven Johnson – The Urban Web
- Aleks Krotoski – Playing the Web: how gaming makes the internet (and the world) a better place
- Joshua Porter – Leveraging Cognitive Bias in Social Design
- Daniel Burka – Designing for Interaction
- Tantek Çelik - Social Network Portability
- Matt Biddulph and Matt Jones – Designing for the Coral Reef
- Jeremy Keith – The System of the World
All in all it was a good day with all the talks being informative, interesting and inspiring me to think about the implications the social web has for accessibility in a wider sense.
I won’t be doing a full run down of the day here – that’s already been done elsewhere on other blogs. If you couldn’t make the day, Alastair Campbell from Nomensa has dConstruct 2008 notes which cover the day well on his personal blog. The podcasts of the talks are also starting to appear on the dConstruct website so make sure to check those out as they get released.
Talking of podcasts, a big thank you should go to Opera Software who sponsored the production of transcripts for the podcasts. These should also be available soon from the dConstruct website. It’s good to see a company sponsoring events such as this through providing something genuinely useful for a lot of people that couldn’t make the day rather than freebies for the attendees.
