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This email covers: 1. Links for light reading 2. Standards-based Jobs 3. Web-related events ---------------------------------------------------- 1. LINKS FOR LIGHT READING ---------------------------------------------------- Accessibility TF Manifesto http://www.webstandards.org/2006/04/19/atf-manifesto/ A More Accessible Map http://www.alistapart.com/articles/cssmaps Community Creators, Secure Your Code! http://www.alistapart.com/articles/secureyourcode Vitamin - nourishment to help the web grow http://www.thinkvitamin.com/ Projecting your CSS http://www.mondaybynoon.com/2006/04/17/projecting-your-css/ Five Most Important Considerations http://allinthehead.com/retro/283/five-most-important-considerations A Journey Through Accessibility http://juicystudio.com/article/journey-through-accessibility.php Bite sized standards http://bitesizestandards.com/ Print stylesheets http://www.adactio.com/journal/1121/ Interesting site: http://www.threepoles.com/ ---------------------------------------------------- 2. STANDARDS BASED JOBS ---------------------------------------------------- Job title: Web Standards Designer / Front End Developer Company: WDG Alfresco City: Brisbane Brief description WDG Alfresco is looking for an enthusiastic web professional to assist in the growth of web standards, useability and accessibility within the company. The former company, Alfresco Design has recently been sold to WDG The largest web design company in Australia and as such we are looking at expanding our team in the Brisbane office. The applicant should have a particular interest in web standards / useability / accessibility and enjoy finding innovative ways to implement these in creative systems. The role would incorporate more interaction design rather than interface design (directly) and focus on the management of Presentation / Behaviour and developing best standards and re-usable components for these. You would need to know the usual array of programs (Photoshop/Illustrator/Dreamweaver) and prefer hand-coding xhtml/css/javascript. Additional knowledge and expertise in Flash would be a huge bonus and there is a possibility if you do know flash that you would be doing a fair workload of it. Work type and pay will depend on your experience/skills but there is an opportunity for both short term and long term development. Contact person Send an email with your resume and examples of your work (and what in particular what you were responsible for) to Nick Maller [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------- 3. WEB RELATED EVENTS ---------------------------------------------------- Melbourne WSG meeting - May May 4 - 2006 Andrew Edwards will be talking about approaches for making Flash sites accessible and visible to search engines. John Allsopp will be talking about Web Patterns. http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/index.cfm?event_id=59 Webstock May 23-26 - 2006 Webstock is a four-day web experience: two days of intensive workshops, followed by a two-day conference. The aim: to improve how websites are built through inspiration, education, insightful analysis and practical application. http://www.webstock.org.nz/ CSS and Javascript workshop - foundations of the new web May - 2006 If you're interested in building websites that will work now and into the future, this two day workshop is for you. Ideal for designers and developers with basic or intermediate knowledge of CSS and/or Javascript who want to learn more. http://www.maxdesign.com.au/workshop-javascript2006/ Sydney WSG meeting - June Javascript in action/ Searching Smarter June 8 - 2006 Cameron Adams: Javascript and Ajax in action David Hawkins: Practical methods to improve the search facilities of your website. Proudly sponsored by Red Square http://www.redsquare.com.au/ http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/index.cfm?event_id=62 Sydney WSG meeting - August Web usability tag clouds and Web 2.0 applications August 17 - 2006 Roger Hudson: Exploring tag clouds and how users interact with them. Donna Maurer: Web 2.0 applications and some of the traps associated with newer forms of interaction. http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/index.cfm?event_id=63 Thanks Russ **************************************************** The announce list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ ****************************************************
