The RNIB Web Access Team will be host to Shawn Henry, W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), and author of Just Ask: Integrating Accessibility Throughout Design who will be presenting on “What’s New, WCAG 2.0, and Current Issues”.
In this session Shawn will highlight recent developments in accessibility guidelines for Web sites, Web applications, evaluation tools, authoring tools, and browsers. Learn how these impact your Web projects now and how they provide flexibility for the future.
Shawn will answer your questions about Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG), User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG), and the Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suite (WAI-ARIA). She’ll talk about how WAI develops accessibility guidelines through the W3C process, upcoming milestones for 2.0 versions, and how you can contribute to W3C’s work.
She’ll also touch on the relationship between accessibility and usability, the role of accessibility standards, and designing positive user experiences for people with disabilities.
Date:Tuesday June 5th
Time: 6.45 so we can start at 7pm
Venue: Department of Electronics, Communications and Software Engineering, Westminster University, New Cavendish Street campus
Getting there: The campus is a short walk from Goodge Street tube - map of the venue
The event is free but places limited so don’t miss out and sign up online.
If you have any questions ahead of time then email us at wac@rnib.org.uk
A big thank you to Stuart Colville and the University of Westminster for helping out and hosting the event.
Accessify: latest news | 27/05/2007 at 22:57 | Permalink
Shawn Henry: What’s new, WCAG 2.0, and Current Issues / Free session / London / 5 June 2007…
The RNIB Web Access Team will be host to Shawn Henry, W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), and author of Just Ask: Integrating Accessibility Throughout Design who will be presenting on What’s New, WCAG 2.0, and Current Issues.
In this session Shaw…
JackP | 30/05/2007 at 11:04 | Permalink
Bah. Isn’t it about time all of these conferences and events started to be held somewhere other than London? Not that I’ve got anything against London specifically, it just generally means I can’t go.
Now if you were to hold it in say, Newcastle, or even better in my local pub…
Henny | 30/05/2007 at 11:14 | Permalink
Hi Jack, couldn’t agree with you more and I for one am itching to get back to Newcastle!
We are working on rolling out our web accessibility training sessions across the UK so I’ll keep you all posted on progress with this. So what pub is your local then?
Scooby Doo | 30/05/2007 at 11:55 | Permalink
there are 5 broken links in this blog article - thought you might like to know :)
Henny | 30/05/2007 at 12:33 | Permalink
Thanks for that, somehow wordpress had mangaged to mangle the links overnight. All fixed now.
Ray Adams | 31/05/2007 at 7:17 | Permalink
Hi
This is much too short notice for me. Will an on-line or electronic version of the presentation be available. What about using video conferencing? It beats travel! I am currently trying out options for effective video conferencing
Regards
Ray
Henny | 31/05/2007 at 15:46 | Permalink
We don’t have the option of video conferencing but will be looking at podcasting it as well as writing up a review.
Mari | 04/06/2007 at 15:39 | Permalink
Too short notice for us in the North. Please consider holding some events in Manchester or Leeds.
Henny | 04/06/2007 at 15:43 | Permalink
Hi Mari, sorry you can’t make it, We are working on presenting and training in Manchester and Leeds so keep an eye out for us later in the year. I will also be posting about the event and podcasting it too.
John Greenaway | 04/06/2007 at 18:37 | Permalink
Sounds good - if I’d known about it earlier would have had someone from L&G there (me prob!) as we’re down for @media on Thurs. Ah well, if you ever come to Wales we’ll be there! We have many local pubs if that helps…
The connections between usability and accessibility is always interesting, especially for us, so any written review much appreciated.
Chris Jennings | 06/06/2007 at 11:13 | Permalink
Really enjoyed the talk last night - be sure to let us know if you get the audio / transcript online.
Web Access Centre Blog :: Overcoming the challenge of podcast transcription | 31/07/2007 at 17:47 | Permalink
[…] Now as some of you may have noticed I have been promising for some time now a transcript of Shawn Henry’s presentation on WCAG 2.0 that RNIB hosted in June. This has proven a trickier promise to meet than I first anticipated and through conversations with other people it’s clear that I’m not the only one finding it difficult to get a quality transcript from an audio file. So here are some tips to help you on the way when you’re looking at getting a transcript for a podcast: […]