It’s only 2 weeks away before my colleague, Peter Mah, and myself head off to Banff and take part in the 16th International World Wide Web Conference. The WWW2007 is a five-day conference (Tuesday to Saturday), featuring 12 tutorials, 8 workshops, 4 plenary speakers, 111 refereed papers, 119 posters, 7 panels, and 10-12 invited industry speakers.
There’s two events that we attending:
World Organization of Webmasters (WOW)
This tutorial provides a survey of contemporary Web design and development technologies and how they can serve you. It will cover the current thinking about contemporary Web development, including clarifying buzz terms such as AJAX and Web 2.0. It will help you to understand the benefits of Web standards and best practices, and learn how technical and ROI performance improves with their implementation.
Presenters:
- David Leip (IBM)
- Bebo White (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)
- Bill Cullifer (WOW)
Evaluating Web Accessibility
Building accessible sites that are vibrant, dynamic and very usable requires the use of good technologies and the application of testing. This tutorial will present a variety of methods for testing web accessibility. Through practical exercises attendees will learn how to conduct automatic, manual and user testing.
Presenters:
- Helen Petrie (University of York)
- Christopher Power (University of York)
- Gerhard Weber (Christian Albrechts University of Kiel)
It’s a bit exciting and I’m looking forward to the conference. I’ve always thought about web accessibility ever since Dudley Storey (instructor in the NMPD program at SAIT) told me that I had no alt titles on some of my image tags and mentioned that if he were blind, he wouldn’t know what those images were about.
Hopefully after this conference I’ll have a better understanding of web accessibility and how to apply it to the work I do, such as this blog. Which brought up this question. If I’m blogging, wouldn’t it take some time for screen readers to read out all the content on this screen? If so, I’ll need to look into cutting that down.
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