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My T-Shirt Design

UPDATE MARCH 2013: T-shirt design updated with new domain

I designed a Web Axe t-shirt on a neat new website, ooShirts.com (although I haven’t tested the accessibility). ooShirts is an apparel startup company located in Berkeley, California. I hope to give away a couple Web Axe t-shirts sometime soon, maybe at CSUN 2012. And you can always order your own!

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Web Accessibility Jobs, Dec 2011

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Post date December 12, 2011
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More great job openings in web accessibility:

UK: Contract web designer with accessibility & usability skills (Hampshire, UK)
Web Accessibility Navigation Specialist wanted at Penn State University
Web Development and Accessibility Specialist at Department of Assistive & Rehab Services (Austin, TX)
Accessibility Specialist at TEKsystems, contract (Louisville, KY)
IT Specialist at Department For the Blind & Vision Impaired (Henrico, VA)
Chief Information Accessibility Officer (St. Paul, MN)
SSB BART Group seeks Lead PHP Developer with WCAG & Java experience (San Francisco, CA)
Section 508 Compliance Analysts, contract (Washington, D.C.)
Section 508 Compliance Tester at Koniag Technology Solutions (Lanham, MD)

For updates on Twitter, follow me, @a11yJobs and @Accessible_Jobs.

Podcast 93: Teaching Mistakes

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Post date December 8, 2011
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Dennis talks briefly about a couple of his recent presentations, a few other presentations and articles, and has a great conversation with Katherine Lynch.

Download Web Axe Episode 93 (Teaching Mistakes)

[Transcript of podcast 93]

Happenings

Busy new day job for Dennis at PayPal.
Two recent presentations by Dennis. Shout out to Norm Coombs of EASI (Equal Access to Software and Information) and John Croston (@jfc3) for putting on the Accessibility DC meetup.

Articles

How Expensive is Accessibility? (by @KarlGroves)
ARIA and HTML5 Accessibility (by @WebAIM)
Screen readers and CSS (by @RogerJohansson)
HTML5 Video Accessibility (by @SilviaPfeiffer)

Discussion with Katherine Lynch.

Katherine Lynch who works for Drexel University Libraries in Philadelphia. Katherine is a Drupal and accessibility professional and has done many presentations and written many articles. Find her on Twitter at @katelynch. Dennis and Katherine discuss her recent article 5 Teaching Mistakes Accessibility Advocates Make:

We assume that others don’t know anything.
We assume that others know too much.
We get hung up on one cause of accessibility.
We try to convert people who don’t need converting.
We blame people for not already knowing.

Slides from DC meetup: How To Build An Accessible Web Application

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Post date November 20, 2011
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Web Axe author Dennis Lembree presented “How To Build An Accessible Web Application” last week (via Skype) at the Accessibility DC meetup (on Twitter at @AccessibilityDC). Examples from the Easy Chirp website are given throughout the presentation. Here are the slides.

How To Build An Accessible Web Application

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Slides from EASI webinar on Twitter and Accessibility

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Post date November 12, 2011
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Web Axe author Dennis Lembree gave an EASI webinar today about Twitter, accessibility and Easy Chirp. Here are the slides.

Twitter and Web Accessibility (EASI Webinar)

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