By admin | Published:
September 15, 2008
Big kudos to Matt Herzberger and the rest of the team at Texas A&M for putting on a Web Accessibility Showcase this week. If you’re not able to be there this week, it’s streaming on ustream.tv. I’ll be presenting there tomorrow at 1330, Central US time.
Posted in Accessibility | Also tagged seminar, texas a&m |
By patrick | Published:
September 2, 2008
Help Knowbility and others fight the University of Texas’s decision to close the Accessibility Institute by signing the petition.
By admin | Published:
June 18, 2008
I work with accessibility in technology. I do it because I believe it is the right thing to do. I am also one who believes all ideas can be taken too far and the proposals being made in the city of Austin for mandated accessible homes are examples of an idea being taken too far.
Bettie [...]
Posted in Accessibility | Also tagged Austin, building |
By patrick | Published:
April 30, 2008
If you are interested in Accessible Technology, then you should know there’s been another step made in implementing WCAG 2.0. This is snipped from an email I got this afternoon:
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group is excited to announce the publication of WCAG 2.0 as a W3C Candidate Recommendation on 30 April. WCAG [...]
Posted in Geekery | Also tagged wcag |
By patrick | Published:
April 11, 2008
Registration is now open for the 2008 accessible technology conference, held May 6 and 7 at St. Edwards University in Austin, TX.
I’m proud to take part in this annual training conference, produced by Knowbility. The conference is for anyone involved in IT, particularly the Web, and who wants to help make the Web a better [...]
By patrick | Published:
March 24, 2008
Dr. John Slatin, founding Director of the Accessibility Institute at the University of Texas, mentor, inspiration and quite simply a force in the push for accessible technology, is saying goodbye after a long fight with leukemia.
Anything I say will pail in comparison to the words and images he wrote down during his treatment in Houston. [...]
Posted in Geekery | Also tagged death, john slatin, love |
By patrick | Published:
March 10, 2008
Cheers to those who attended my Core Conversation on captioning web video. Some quick links related to the topic:
MAGpie (Media Access Generator). This is the software I spoke of that makes it pretty easy to create caption files you can use with online video.
The MAGpie mailing list. A mailing list is only as useful as [...]
Posted in Accessibility | Also tagged captions, magpie, sxsw |
By patrick | Published:
February 18, 2008
I’m happy and honored to say I’ll be presenting at South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive this year. I’m leading one of the Core Conversation sessions and the topic is captioning web video. The conversation title is “Cooking up Accessible Video for the Web” and it’s going to be on Sunday, March 9, at 3:30.
The session [...]
By patrick | Published:
July 27, 2007
I’ve looked at six of the 2008 Presidential candidates’ website, examining them to see how accessible the sites are. Mind you, I just did a cursory overview and I’ve summarized my findings in the table below. The original reviews are still available here on my site in the “Accessibility” category. Since some time has passed [...]