Web Accessibility Event Registration
Joint Accessibility event with Texthelp Systems Ltd and Jim Byrne.
When and where is it?
Wednesday 6th August in Radisson SAS Royal hotel in Glasgow. The day will start at 9.30am and finish about 2pm with lunch and refreshments provided.
The aim of the event is to introduce and explore website accessibility and usability issues. We aim to inform delegates and give them useful information they can take away and implement on their organisation's website.
Cost
The cost is £70 per person (book now as places are limited).
Event Speakers
Nigel Cunningham, Business Development Manager, Browsealoud
Nigel has worked in various sales and marketing positions for 8 years, 6 of which have been B2B roles in the ICT sector.
Responsible for Business Development of the Browsealoud product in Scotland and Ireland, he has a BA Hons in European Business Studies and a Postgraduate Diploma from the Chartered Institute of Marketing.
Title: Introduction to Browsealoud
- Using Browsealoud to improve the accessibility of your website.
- Demonstration
Jim Byrne - Web Developer
Jim has been working in the area of accessible web design since 1996 when he set up one of the first web accessibility consultancies in the UK. He now runs his own web design and development business, working mainly in the voluntary, education and public sector. He is the founder of the Guild of Accessible Web Designers and has written extensively on the practice of accessible web design.
Title: Social networking and Web 2 websites - Your name's not on the list so you can't come in
New techniques and technologies have introduced new accessibility issues - which in practice means many disabled people are being prevented from participating in online networking.
Online networks are becoming increasingly important, both socially and for business, so not being able to use MySpace or Facebook is or some of the other social network sites is a serious problem.
Alan White
Alan is a freelance web developer with 10 years of industry experience on the front line of interface development. In 2007, he founded "The Highland Fling - Web Standards in Scotland", a conference aimed at raising awareness of best practise web development in Scotland and to act as a forum for developers, businesses and education to benefit from.
Bordering on obsessive, Alan believes that the web can and more importantly should be a better place for everyone and will be taking a "Back to basics" approach to making the web more accessible for all.
Title: Back to basics - Web standards and accessibility
- better markup is the first step to accessibility
- forget the design, we can do that later
- content is king, structure makes it better
- what is progressive enhancement?
- alienating people is wrong, accessibility is paramount.
- "in closing"
David Sloan - Project Lead of the Digital Media Access Group
David Sloan is Project Lead of the Digital Media Access Group, an accessibility consultancy and research unit based in the University of Dundee's School of Computing. He has worked in the field of web and software accessibility and inclusive design since 1999, providing support and advice to many major clients across various sectors, and in 2006 completed a PhD focusing on how web accessibility audits can be more effective as educational and motivational tools.
Title: Beyond Web Content Accessibility - the importance of Authoring Tools in achieving an accessible Web
Developments in the Web means it is now easier than ever for people without specialist knowledge to produce and publish web content. From Flickr and Facebook to enterprise-level content management systems, publishing can be made very straightforward - yet at the same time, the potential for accessibility barrier to be introduced increases.
This talk will focus on the importance of web content authoring tool accessibility, review the W3C's Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines and their influence on tool development and usage policy, and argue that we need to do more to make sure that tools play their role in supporting accessible authoring.
Mark Palmer Consultant User Vision - Focusing on the user experience
Mark has 12 years experience in the IT Industry, 6 of which were spent heading the user interface team at Intelligent Finance. In his role as Senior Analyst Programmer, Mark headed up numerous projects, ensuring that accessibility standards were maintained from the projects inception through to the delivered product.
A passionate advocate for accessibility and web standards, Mark is a strong believer that the web can be accessible and user friendly without sacrificing style.
Mark is a huge music fan, usually listening to bands which other people have never heard of.
- Recruiting for disabled testing
- Challenging our understanding of what is really accessible
- Unusable accessibility
- Issues not fully identified by the WCAG Guidelines
- Usability and Accessibility in conflict
Colin Hamilton - Strathclyde University
Colin Hamilton works at Strathclyde University as the webteam web developer and is also developing an Adult literacy product deliverable both online and offline.
Colin's role at the University encompasses web development, web design, analysing the usability and usage of the University website to guide the development of the University's web presence.
Title: Basic usability of websites
Talking about usability of a website looking at:
- user journeys/ user tasks
- web analytics
- site navigation
- page design
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