Accessibility Strategy Event

Stuart Smith at Manchester University is running an event at cafe Muse tomorrow (Wednesday 14th)

http://ukupa.org.uk/north/

Forthcoming Events

The next two events will be at the MDDA premises in Central Manchester on Tuesday 11th October and Wednesday 23rd November.

The October event will be blessed with a presentation from Dr David Kreps on accessibility and data tables (I think). We're also going to nerd out a bit more. This event is going to be a live clinic. Previous sessions have switched people on to the necessity of accessibility. This time, I'm hoping were going to demonstrate some tricks of the trade. We want you to bring along some real world problems you're labouring with right now. We're putting together a panel of experts (Volunteers please!) and we'll get them to sort out your problems as best they can. So start thinking about the issues you have and where not commercially sensitive, bring them along to the meeting.

If you want to attend, please let me know via awg@virtuaffinity.com

The meeting in November we're going to skew to commercial considerations. How do you sell accessibilty to your clients? You can only deliver what the client specifies and pays for. Ideas on presentations and speakers on a postcard please.

And a last point, the nominated pub is the Pitcher and Piano by the Bridgewater Hall.

NLB Event Tells It Like It Is

First of all many thanks to Carol Pollitt and the NLB for hosting the event. We got our hands on the kind of kit many of cannot afford to own. It becomes rather apparent that websites to standards is one thing but actually achieving meaningful accessibility can be something very diferent.

Once again, the turn out was excellent with delegates from around the North West including:

Amaze
Pavillion
Vanilla Storm
and Sputnik Internet

Carol gave us a presentation which I'm hoping to make available via the Blog. Very enlightening it is too.

We also did some live critique of brave souls websites . One of which was Fluid Creativity and it came out very well.

Any more thoughts on the event, stick them here