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Comment on Refresh Ottawa Kickoff by Doug

Doug — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:06:52 +0000

Wish I could be there. I would love to know more about accessible mapping with Google Maps. Maybe you could post an overview afterward?

Comment on Refresh Ottawa Kickoff by Gareth

Gareth — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 20:16:40 +0000

Congrats on getting your meetups up and running.

As it happens Refresh Newcastle are meeting up that evening too (http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/396927/). That makes 37 groups

I’ve also put together a map of all the other Refresh events

Comment on Refresh Ottawa Kickoff by Matt Robin

Matt Robin — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 19:35:56 +0000

Sounds great!

The only downside for me is that I’m a bit of a long way from Ottawa… ;)

Hope it goes well.

Comment on Doing it with (user) style by Richard Morton

Richard Morton — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:31:18 +0000

Looks good, I haven’t experimented with this sort of thing yet, but I can see it being very useful for those sites that I regularly visit and think, if only the colours were different or that text was in a better font.

It could start a craze along the lines of the Zen Garden but producing different styles for existing sites (just don’t tell the marketing teams at those big brands though)

Comment on Doing it with (user) style by Mike Cherim

Mike Cherim — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:13:14 +0000

Your modification of the WCAG styling is excellent Derek. Much clearer.

Comment on Doing it with (user) style by feather

feather — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:25:58 +0000

Ben - sure, that works too :)

Sadly, Opera hasn’t worked on my MacBookPro in ages. Every time I try to start it up, it hangs the machine. I actually took the Opera challenge a while ago and made it my default browser and I quite liked it. Then one day, poof! It wouldn’t start and I haven’t been back since. Which is too bad, because—as you know—I’m a huge fan of Opera because they get so many things right when it comes to accessibility.

Comment on Doing it with (user) style by Ben Buchanan

Ben Buchanan — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:17:28 +0000

You can also apply user stylesheets per site using Opera. Just save the CSS file somewhere appropriate; then go to the site in question, right-click and select “edit site preferences”, go to the “display” tab and choose the CSS file in “my stylesheet”. Done!

No extensions required :)

Comment on Web Directions North, 2nd edition by Ruth Ellison

Ruth Ellison — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:33:37 +0000

As a big supporter of Web Directions, I would love to get over to Web Directions North! Not sure whether I can do it in 2008 though. Perhaps 2009!

Comment on Web Directions North, 2nd edition by Jonathan E

Jonathan E — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:13:59 +0000

Looks like an incredible event Derek, I absolutely hope I can make it again this year!

Comment on An Event Apart, Deep Dish Edition by Jeff Allen

Jeff Allen — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 02:51:40 +0000

Derek,
It was really great finally getting to see you speak after reading you for so long. You’re talk at AEA in in Chicago was just awesome and definitely for me at least, inspiring. Some of the things you showed made me green with envy and left me wishing I could have worked with you on a number of those projects. Especially the crossword example. It was cool!

As one of the main proponents for accessibility where I work on a university campus, I often feel my failure to inspire more of my colleagues to embrace web standards and accessibility to be very disheartening to say the least. Everyone tells me “its too much work for too little benefit”, “I’ve been doing it my way for 20 years, why change now?” etc… But hearing you speak about some of the problems you had to solve helped me pick my waning spirits up and give it another go. I’m not sure they’ll ever listen, but that doesn’t mean I have to stop telling them.

Thanks for a really inspiring presentation.