Friday, April 3rd, 2009 - 3:18pm
Workshops, Conferences and More
If you follow me on Twitter, you will have (hopefully) seen the announcement that our latest workshop has opened up for registration: Real World Accessibility for Ajax and Web Apps in Ottawa. This full-day workshop has received rave reviews from audiences in Wellington, New Zealand, Perth and Sydney, Australia, and places closer to home — Denver, Vancouver, Austin, and Long Beach. Each time I’ve done the workshop I’ve always said to myself “Self, you really should do this workshop back home.” Now that time has come.
If you can’t make it to Ottawa, are interested in other workshops, or if you’d like us to bring the workshop to another location, let us know where and when you’d like us to make the workshop happen and we’ll be happy to investigate bringing it to your area or to your in-house team.
If you can’t wait until June 15th, you might also check out what we’re doing at other conferences in the next few months (please, check out the full list of events where I’m speaking)
Web App Summit, Newport Beach, CA, April 19-22
I spoke at the Web App Summit last year, and it was a fantastic experience; I’m really excited that the UIE team has asked me back for the 2009 Web App Summit. This event brings together an amazing pool of talent — the attendees, the conference organizers and the other speakers.
In addition to my main conference talk, I’m turning out a new full-day workshop for this conference that pulls together foundational concepts in Ajax technology and design with best practices for implementation and execution. The workshop — Designing Great Interactive Experiences for Everyone: Implementing Ajax and Accessibility — is for those that are looking for a kick start with Ajax, those that are looking for opportunities to use Ajax in their new or existing web apps, and those that need to ensure they follow best practices for developing with Ajax.
Use the promo code FEATHER to get your discount.
Access U, Austin, TX, May 11-14
Access U 2009 is full-on accessibility. I’ve been speaking at Access U since 2005 for Knowbility. If you’re looking for more accessibility than you can handle, this is the place to get it. From Accessibility 101, to CSS, JavaScript, Accessibility Policy, PDF, Flash, and a lot more. New to this conference is the UPA track.
I’m also debuting a new full-day workshop: Breaking New Ground: Designing for Accessibility with Emerging Technologies. The workshop takes a look at different technologies: PDF, Flash, Flex, Silverlight and others from a fresh perspective: how do we work with these technologies in a modern world where WCAG 2.0 is the standard and the days of WCAG 1.0’s “use HTML or it isn’t accessible” are gone.
An Event Apart, Boston, MA, June 21-22
No workshops for me this time, just a brand new presentation that explores “Accessibility – Experiments at the Edges of Experience.” In this talk we walk through a host of examples of accessibility at the edge, looking at solutions that solve problems and shine light in some of the murkiest, greyest areas of accessibility for web sites and apps.
Use the promo code AEAVIP for your discount off the registration fee for An Event Apart Boston 2009.