We’ll be out in force again this year for @Media in London with Ann Mcmeekin, Bim Egan, Jim Carne and myself attending. Apart form the chance to catch up with many of you and meet new people we’re looking forward to what is an impressive line up of speakers.
Top of my list will be seeing Richard Ishida from the W3C Internationalization working group speaking about “Designing for International Users: Practical Tips”. This has so much more importance than many of us give credit and also has a very close overlap with some of the web WCAG 1.0 (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) and Mobile Web 1.0 guidelines which I will be posting about in the blog soon. This will go down well with Andy Clark’s “Royal with cheese” a presentation on his findings from five months of research looking at designs from around the world.
There is also a good spread of presentations around Ajax and JavaScript which is very much top of the agenda at the moment. Speakers include Jeremy Keith presenting on “Bulletproof Ajax”, Jesse James Garrett presenting on “Beyond Ajax” and Dan Webb presenting on “The Mysteries Of JavaScript-Fu”.
The last session of the conference is the Hot Topics panel which is always the interesting one. Last year Gez Lemon, Ian Lloyd, Patrick Lauke and Andy Clarke discussed WCAG 2.0. Can’t help wondering what will be covered this year.
Anyway, look forward to seeing some of you there and also at the meet ups in the evenings over the next few days.
patrick h. lauke | 09/06/2007 at 22:41 | Permalink
good to finally meet you and bim (and particularly having that two hour discussion on all things accessibility with her outside of the far too loud clockworks pub).
patrick h. lauke | 09/06/2007 at 22:42 | Permalink
p.s.: it seem that, once a comment is submitted, there’s no redirection back to the blog post itself…all i got was a blank page
Henny | 11/06/2007 at 11:29 | Permalink
good to meet you too Patrick and catch up with a few other people as well. We seem to be having a few (ongoing) problems with Wordpress, I keep getting blank pages when posting too. Anyway, we’re tinkering under the bonnet so should have it sorted soon.