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CSUN13 Summary

Last week, my author Dennis Lembree attended the 28th Annual International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference (better known as CSUN) at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego, California.

Dennis presented one session “Developing an Accessible Widget with ARIA” representing his day job company. You may download Dennis’ PowerPoint file here.

WebAIM announced that there is now an API for WAVE, their web accessibility evaluation tool. It has a very affordable pricing model, and the first 100 “credits” are free with registration.

Besides the sessions, there are many activities happening at CSUN including the Tweetup, SS12 Finals, and the first WordPress accessibility meetup! A highlight was Deque Systems’ “Amazing Evening” event featuring a guitar player who played with his feet, and who was also a hilarious comedian!

Props to the Toronto accessibility crew who had great representation again. Met more Canadians this year (thanks to @Jennison) including Bill Gregory, George Zamfir and Jorge Mori.

Recap of Accessibility Camp LA

Post author By Dennis
Post date November 9, 2012
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A few weeks ago, on October 20, Web Axe author Dennis Lembree attended the very first Accessibility Camp Los Angeles at CSU Northridge. The event is led by @jennison and @joedevon. After opening comments and introductions, Dennis presented Introduction to Web Accessibility (sorry, the Google docs nor the Slideshare version is very accessible). Dennis represented PayPal, his day job in San Jose, who sponsored lunch.

Many other well known accessibility professionals attended and shared their expertise. This is totally awesome since most came from out of state at their own expense. This includes:

Elle Waters who spoke on accessibility as innovation.
Karl Groves who spoke on testing tools.
John Foliot who spoke on HTML5.
Pratik Patel who spoke on document accessibility.
William Lawrence who spoke on Section 508.
Joseph O’Connor who spoke on WordPress accessibility.

Learn more about Accessibility Camp LA on Twitter:

CSUN12 Quick Review

Another CSUN conference has come and gone and this year was better than ever. I met many great people for the first time including Joe Dolson, who’s been on the Web Axe podcast a couple times in the past. The conference included much discussion on Google and accessibility, the announcement of WAVE5 beta by WebAIM, and the Tweetup was a bash! Special thanks to Adobe, Deque, and Accessible Media for being such great hosts. On Saturday morning, I attended the SS12 finals in which @Jennison was one of three judges (I judged last year). Be sure to check out the Great Big List by @mactoph which includes many links to presentations, round-ups, podcasts, and more. Also, here’s my Flickr CSUN12 photo album. -Dennis

Joe, Jennison, Dennis, and John sitting at table for lunch.

Photo: Joe, Jennison, Dennis, and John at lunch. Credit: Angela Hooker.

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Podcast 94: Women of CSUN12

Post author By Dennis
Post date January 29, 2012
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This podcast is a preview of the 27th Annual International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference, commonly known as CSUN, February 27 thru March 3 in San Diego, California. If you’re not attending to the CSUN conference this year, this podcast is valuable in learning about current issues in web accessibility and “meeting” several great people in the field. If you are going, then you can also make a better decision in which sessions you want to attend.

First, Dennis and Jennison Asuncion (@Jennison) do an excellent overview of the conference (OK, mostly Jennison). Then several guests, all women, speak about their work, their sessions at CSUN, and some other fun thoughts. Four of the women live in the UK!

Download Web Axe Episode 94 (Women of CSUN12)

[Transcript of podcast 94]

Guests

Glenda Sims / @GoodWitch
Henny Swan / @IHeni
Lainey Feingold / @LFLegal
Leonie Watson / @LeonieWatson
Sandi Wassmer / @SandiWassmer
Sarah Lewthwaite / @Slewth

More Related

CSUN12 Tweetup, Thursday, March 1 at 6:30pm
Project: Possibility / @ProjPossibility
Adobe at CSUN12 / @AdobeAccess
Manchester Grand Hyatt

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Post-CSUN Resources

My last podcast previewed CSUN (The 26th Annual International Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference), which happened last week. It was a great success. Fortunately a few folks have written great summaries of the event, listed below. Also, I’ve posted some CSUN11 photos on Flickr.

Here are two excellent resources for session presentations and more:

The Great Big List from the 2011 CSUN Conference by Curb Cut.
CSUN 2011 Web highlights by Leonie Watson.

Some notable blog posts:

My March Madness – John Foliot.
CSUN 2011, jour 1 : compte-rendu des conférences (English translation) – Denis Boudreau.
Notes on #csun11 – Joshue O Connor
Lightening Talk on Accessible Twitter updates at CSUN Tweetup – Dennis Lembree.

Suggested presentations relating to web accessibility are:

Accessibility of HTML5 and Rich Internet Applications (WebAIM and The Paciello Group): ARIA Morning Session | ARIA Afternoon Session
Accessible HTML5 media players, captions, audio description and search (PDF) – Terrill Thompson.
Making rich internet applications accessible through jQuery (PDF) – Chris Blouch (AOL) and Hans Hillen (TPG)
Using the barcamp/unconference format – Jennison Asuncion, James Timony and John F Croston.
Improving Web Accessibility for the Elderly – Roger Hudson.
DISTCHA: an attempt to kill CAPTCHA – Vincent François & Samuel Sirois.

Any more to add? Please comment!

Additions

Successfully Integrating Accessibility in your Organization’s Web Development Lifecycle – Denis Boudreau.
Role of engineering best practices to create an inclusive web – Srinivasu Chakravarthula.
CSUN: A recap from the week in San Diego – Technology for the Blind.
CSUN 26th Annual International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference, San Diego – Virtual Imaginings.
IBM CSUN 2011 presentations