Web Access Centre Blog

… and from near and far,
standardistas were gathering,
in a nice London bar…

Outside of the serious business of attending conferences, it’s always good to meet people in a less formal setting, and when there are this many people in town, two days just isn’t enough to get to talk to everyone, and the conference organisers kindly organised a pre- (and a post-) conference event.

Having been a regular on AccessifyForum for a while now, I took the chance to join a group of the regulars for dinner, before we headed for the @media party, where I got the chance to catch up with a few people I’ve met before and meet a whole lot of new people.

All good preparation for the start of the conference tomorrow, which kicks off with one a tough decision - which panel should I attend first? On one hand, I’d really love to see what Veerle, Jon and Cameron show as examples of great design - especially since my most often repeated mantra at the moment is “your site doesn’t have to be boring or ugly to be accessible…”, but the more technical part of my brain is really curious to see Jeremy’s presentation on how to use DOM Scripting to achieve visual effects that CSS just can’t do.

It’s a real shame that I can’t be in both at the same time, but with a conference schedule that’s so packed full of interesting presentations, there were always going to be conflicts.

I may wind up having to toss a coin to decide.