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d.Construct 2006 – mashup with the best

Some conferences are just so delicious they make me drool. Take d.Construct 2006 coming up September 8th in Brighton. The speaker list includes:

Jeffrey Veen (Design Manager at Google) I swear he gives me goosebumps with his amazingly visionary brain.
Jeremy Keith (ClearLeft, author DOM Scripting: Web Design with Javascript and the Document Object Model and member of the Web Standards Project) As brilliant a speaker as he is at DOM scripting.
Derek Featherstone (Furtherahead and member of the Web Standards Project) An international web developer and speaker who loves to share his technical knowledge of HTML, CSS, DOM Scripting, Web 2.0 and Accessibility. Don’t forget to ask him about his bar tricks too!

Bite Sized Standards: Just the Facts, Ma’am

In this world of data overload, it is refreshing to find a site that gives you focused and useful information. Let me introduce you to, Bite Size Standards, one of my new favorites for concise web development tutorials.

Naked Value

A question arose on the way to dinner last night. What was the value of “getting naked” yesterday by stripping off our CSS to celebrate Annual CSS Naked Day?

One of my friends said (perhaps jokingly),

“So over 750 people had nothing better to do today than strip off their CSS. I don’t have time for these memes.”

CSS Stripped!

Time to party with your css off! It is the Annual CSS Naked Day! Web standards lovers everywhere have stripped their css off today to flaunt their <body>.

Access U – Accessibility Conference in Austin, May 11-12

What are you doing May 11-12? I hope you are attending Access U in Austin, Texas! What is Access U? A two-day accessibility conference for webmasters to teach you both the how and the why of creating web sites that meet federal, state, and industry mandates for accessibility.

Attend AccessU for:

My Practical Accessibility Plan

I love to share my passion for accessibility. There is something incredibly satisifying about kicking down barriers to information. I’m inspired by the goals of the W3C, “Web for everyone. Web on everything.”

With this in mind, I wanted to share my own practical accessibility practice. When asked to test a site for accessibility, these are the steps that Glenda the Goodwitch takes:

IE in a Firefox Costume

Today I was told by a software vendor that their product could be used in Firefox. I was thrilled beyond words…until I pulled back the curtain to discover the IE Tab Extension.

When I ask for browser agnostic tools, I mean…

Web Wrestling at SXSW

Are you a lean, mean design machine? Do you long for the opportunity to design web sites the way you know they should be: accessible, usable and standards complaint? Does your organization care more about cheap, fast results rather than quality code? Then it is high time for a web wrestling smack down in SXSW style!