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This is a one-way list for WSG Announcements
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This email covers:
- Links for light reading
- WSG and Industry events
- Industry related Jobs (1 new jobs this week)
If you have an event, resource or relevant job you'd like posted (from any
country), please let me know.
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LINKS FOR LIGHT READING
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This weeks "links for light reading" are also available here:
<http://www.maxdesign.com.au/2006/10/12/some-links-100/>
Working with Others: Accessibility and User Research
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/workingwithothers
The ALA Primer Part Two: Resources For Beginners
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/alaprimer2
Should I Make a Flash Site? Flash Website Flowchart
http://www.thegooglecache.com/?p=46
The Great Accessibility Camp-Out
http://accessites.org/gbcms_xml/news_page.php?id=24#n24
IE7 Is Coming This Month...Are you Ready?
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/10/06/IE7-Is-Coming-This-Month_2E002E0
02E00_Are-you-Ready_3F00_.aspx
Firefox 2 Release notes
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/2.0/releasenotes/
Selling Jeffrey Zeldman on Selling
http://www.subtraction.com/archives/2006/1010_selling_jeff.php
The minimalist backlash
http://www.christianmontoya.com/2006/09/25/the-miminalist-backlash/
Teaching Web Design, part 5
http://www.christianmontoya.com/2006/09/28/teaching-web-design-part-5/
In search of the missing run-in value
http://www.thinkvitamin.com/features/css/in-search-of-the-missing-run-in-val
ue
Be Accessible, Don¹t Meet Guidelines
http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/200610/be-accessible-dont-meet-guidel
ines/
3 Easy Steps to Avoid JavaScript Memory Leaks
http://www.jackslocum.com/yui/2006/10/02/3-easy-steps-to-avoid-javascript-me
mory-leaks/
CSS Tip: Targeting IE 5.x, 6 and 7 Separately
http://www.ejeliot.com/blog/63
Finding fresh inspiration
http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/finding_fresh_inspiration.php
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WSG AND INDUSTRY EVENTS
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October Web Standards Group meeting (London) Microformats! - 19th October
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Speaking at the event will be three people who rank among some of the
leading lights in the field of microformats; Drew McLellan, Jeremy Keith and
Mark Norman Francis. Between them they will be covering the nuts and bolts
of microformats through to some more involved implementations.
http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2006/10/05/wsg-microformats-thursday-19
th-october/
October Web Standards Group meeting (Sydney) - 19 October
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A joint meeting with the WSG and Sydney Flash Platform Developers Group
The Web - a blind perspective - Lee Kumutat, Training and Braille Products
Manager from Quantum Technology will be talking about the web from a blind
perspective.
The mobile web - what you need to know right now
Dominique Lee will be exploring the mobile web, where it is at and where it
is going and what you need to know right now!
Sponsored by Access Testing
http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/index.cfm?event_id=74
RSVP: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IDEA2006 (Seattle) 23-24 October
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IDEA 2006 brings together a diverse set of designers, creators, and
researchers addressing a fundamental challenge we're facing today - how to
let everyday people take true advantage of the overwhelming mass of
information that floods their lives.
http://www.ideaconference.org/
Open Standards (Sydney) - 25-27 October
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OASIS Open Standards 2006 is the fourth annual Asia Pacific event where both
management and technical professionals from the business and government
sector can gather to share expertise and promote
open discussion on the latest technologies, applications and services
supporting the global e-Business community.
http://www.open-standards.com/
Web Accessibility Workshops
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* Sydney - 2 November
* Canberra - 14 November
These full-day workshops run by Vision Australia, are targeted at
web-development team leaders, corporate communications professionals and
business managers, along with content authors, web programmers and designers
and web contract managers. These workshops provide a thorough overview of
accessibility issues and how to address them. They cover the World Wide Web
Consortium's Content Accessibility Guidelines and their implementation and a
consideration of assessment tools and techniques.
http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/ais/webworkshops/
Writing for the Web Workshop (Melbourne) - 2 November
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This practical workshop run by Vision Australia focuses on enhancing the
usability and accessibility of your web content and will teach you how to
communicate effectively with your readers.
http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=608
Building Enterprise Web Apps on a Budget - How We Built Flickr
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Brisbane - Monday, 13th November, 2006
Sydney - Tuesday, 14th November, 2006
Canberra - Thursday, 16th November, 2006
Melbourne - Friday, 17th November, 2006
In this full day tutorial we'll look at how the Flickr team built and scaled
the application quickly from it's real-time environment roots to the
de-facto repository for over 200 million photos it's become.
http://webworkshops.com.au/flickr
OZeWAI 2006 (Melbourne) - November 29 and December 1
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Web Adaptability Conference 2006: Are we making the best progress possible?
La Trobe University Melbourne.
Adaptability is about ensuring that everyone who wants to access digital
content can do so if they have appropriate devices and telecommunications.
Currently this is not the case - large Web pages rarely fit on small
hand-held device screens, let alone phone screens, and most interesting
sites are not accessible to people with adaptive tchnologies because the
resources are not well-formed.
http://www.ozewai.org/2006/index.html
Webstock Mini (Wellington) - December 6
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The Webstock team presents a day of edification and an evening of
entertainment for your web-related pleasure and education.
Mark Wednesday 6 December in your diaries for Russ Weakley presenting an
all-day CSS workshop and Natasha Hall, Russell Brown and Nat Torkington
speaking on a range of wonderous topics. Registrations are now open."
http://webstock.org.nz
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JOBS
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Contract work at the University of Melbourne
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Web developers, programmers, designers, content specialists, information
architects or project managers interested in being considered for
contract-based web development work at the University of Melbourne are
invited to submit their details via this web form:
http://www.unimelb.edu.au/webcentre/tools/developerlist/
The web form asks prospective contractors to nominate some web sites as
examples of their work. The University's central Web Services group will
assess the nominated sites, looking for evidence of:
* an understanding of usability and accessibility
* ability to apply a corporate design standard
* quality of coding and content
* and other indicators of quality.
We will notify the contractor of the outcome of this review and,
assuming all is well, add their contact details to our list of
QA-checked contractors for work on an ad hoc basis.
Thanks
Russ
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