Re: [backstage] One-day Conference To Help Web Developers Address Accessibility in Web 2.0

2008-03-12 Thread Richard Lockwood
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, We're involved in abilitynet's one day conference - www.abilitynet.org.uk/accessibility2 So who's actually going to this then? Cheers, Rich. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe,

Re: [backstage] One-day Conference To Help Web Developers Address Accessibility in Web 2.0

2008-03-12 Thread ynohtna
On 12/03/2008, Richard Lockwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We're involved in abilitynet's one day conference - www.abilitynet.org.uk/accessibility2 So who's actually going to this then? I'll likely be there

Re: [backstage] One-day Conference To Help Web Developers Address Accessibility in Web 2.0

2008-03-05 Thread Tim Dobson
On 05/03/2008, Andy Halsall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only thing I would take issue with is that at £150.00 (plus travel and accomodation) this will be out of reach for the group that would benefit from it most. (i.e. small web design company's, freelancers etc.. students... (yes, £90 *is*

Re: [backstage] One-day Conference To Help Web Developers Address Accessibility in Web 2.0

2008-03-05 Thread Fearghas McKay
On 5 Mar 2008, at 12:24, Tim Dobson wrote: students... (yes, £90 *is* a lot for a student if you add it to travel and accomodation) I couldn't agree more. £150 for freelancers who live locally, who I bounced this to, has been more than they can afford. And a complete non-starter for

Re: [backstage] One-day Conference To Help Web Developers Address Accessibility in Web 2.0

2008-03-05 Thread Mr I Forrester
I don't believe there will be, but ability.net have said they want to do more of them depending on this event. Maybe even even up north Tim. Fearghas McKay wrote: On 5 Mar 2008, at 12:24, Tim Dobson wrote: students... (yes, £90 *is* a lot for a student if you add it to travel and

Re: [backstage] One-day Conference To Help Web Developers Address Accessibility in Web 2.0

2008-03-05 Thread Andrew Disley
On 5 Mar 2008, at 13:21, Mr I Forrester wrote: I don't believe there will be, but ability.net have said they want to do more of them depending on this event. Maybe even even up north Tim. I for one am very really pleased to see an event dedicated to this topic, congratulations to

Re: [backstage] One-day Conference To Help Web Developers Address Accessibility in Web 2.0

2008-03-05 Thread Sean DALY
I agree that accessibility is below the radar of most developers. Less important topics are too, such as color management (modern browsers interpret ICC color profiles). In my experience, what's effective is to videotape the conference and publish the video and audio recordings with transcripts,

Re: [backstage] One-day Conference To Help Web Developers Address Accessibility in Web 2.0

2008-03-04 Thread Andy Halsall
On Monday 03 March 2008 14:51:33 Ian Forrester wrote: Hi All, We're involved in abilitynet's one day conference - www.abilitynet.org.uk/accessibility2 This may actually be quite interesting, its certainly a topic that could do with a little more publicity and support. (I should say its

[backstage] One-day Conference To Help Web Developers Address Accessibility in Web 2.0

2008-03-03 Thread Ian Forrester
Hi All, We're involved in abilitynet's one day conference - www.abilitynet.org.uk/accessibility2 If you found our podcast about web 2.0 accessibility useful or interesting, this whole day of talks and discussions is just right for you. Robin Christopherson Web Services Manager of AbilityNet

Re: [backstage] One-day Conference To Help Web Developers Address Accessibility in Web 2.0

2008-03-03 Thread ST
Quoting Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Robin Christopherson Web Services Manager of AbilityNet said “We believe it’s time for the focus to come back onto Accessibility, and that a conference of this kind is what is needed to help developers make their Web 2.0 applications

Re: [backstage] One-day Conference To Help Web Developers Address Accessibility in Web 2.0

2008-03-03 Thread Tim Dobson
Ian Forrester wrote: Hope to see you all there, Cool, so presumably travel and funding arrangements have been made for people/students from the north, (which is deprived of bbc events :( ) so that a wide range of different people can attend this interesting and important event? Tim --