33 yo, MWMW3K, travelling solo to Austin, Texas in March, 2005 to present at SXSWi. Looking for like-minded individuals with commitment to web standards and accessibility for sharing stories, ideas, and drinks and/or un-like minded individuals open to conversion. Especially looking for the right person open to sharing accomodation for purely financial reasons.

Interested? Let me know, or tell me here and we’ll get in touch.

I’m pleased to announce that I’ve just had my first article published over at DMXZone.com, entitled “A Different Web Accessibility Primer”. Other members of the authoring team at DMXZone include web professionals such as Molly Holzschlag, Rachel Andrew and Rudy Limeback (among others).

I’ve posted a sample of the web accessibility primer over at WATS.ca so that you can get an idea what the article is about. Just so you are aware: DMXZone.com is a subscription based site – articles are very reasonably priced, and they do have bulk and yearly subscriptions available.

Many thanks to Ian Blackham of DMXZone for his editing suggestions and for helping to co-ordinate the publication and production of this article.

Only recently did I come across the video of Zeldman’s keynote address from Web Essentials ’04. In it I found a great line about web standards. It is simple in its elegance and reflects what a number of people have been saying for some time about web standards and the current state of the world of web design:

I believe web standards are just going to be what you do… If you know what you’re doing, it’s just going to be … just a tool. It’s just going to be a tool that you use… and I think the focus of web design will go back to things like content, design, usability

Continue reading Growing Up With Web Standards

S⁵ is moving quickly – within the last few days, it has seen three revisions — the most important of which is seen in the 1.1a3 version with incremental display. If you aren’t aware, S⁵ provides a framework for creating well-structured and accessible presentation materials. We’ve been using Opera Show for our accessibility presentations at WATS.ca for the past year or so, but I was immediately attracted to S⁵ because of its cross-browser compatibility.

I decided to try S⁵ for a presentation I was giving last night, and I wanted a particular graphic to render incrementally. Here’s how I did it using the incremental display from the first alpha release to incorporate incremental rendering: S⁵1.1a3.
Continue reading S5 and Incremental Rendering of Graphics

I’m currently reading a book by Kim Vicente called “The Human Factor” that a colleague of mine (an ergonomist) recommended to me.

I’ll post a more thorough review of it later, but I wanted to share some nuggets I found In the first chapter. This passage really resonated with the world of the web and what we, as web professionals, do:
Continue reading The Human Factor

I’m sitting on the fence on a small decision I need to make and I want to ask your collective input and thoughts. There are times you just need an outside perspective, and now is a time where I could use yours.
Continue reading Disclosure and Site Critiques