February 18, 2010 7:30 PM - 30 attended
LONDON WEB - Accessibility in the Days of jQuery, Flash and AJAX - Arrgggg!
Wahoo Sports Bar - Putney (map)
This meetup:
HTML5
CSS3
Usability
Accessibility
IE6 nightmares
....and a bit of ... CODE arrrgggg!
Yes, can you use all of the above to make a usable accessible website.
Special Guest: Accessibility Evangelist Artur Ortega will demonstrate bleeding edge web accessibility: WAI-ARIA for Web 2.0 sites. Screen readers for the blind will be demonstrated, incuding JAWS and NVDA.
Nathan will present on using HTML5 basics now, using CSS3 that degrades nicely on IE6, a bit of JQuery, some micro formats, and a demo of the basic use of the symfony framework after just getting back from symfony live in Paris.
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Ben Logan
Hi folks - Just as a heads up Fulham are playing Shakhtar Donetsk tonight so bars and trains in the Putney Bridge area will be a bit busy.
Posted February 18, 2010 at 11:14 AM -
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Joe Pettersson
@ Ben Logan - I think 'a bit busy' might be just a touch of an understatement.
Posted February 18, 2010 at 12:37 PM -
Nathan O'Hanlon
@Tony , Probably not, unless someone wants to volunteer.
Posted February 18, 2010 at 12:54 PM -
Nathan O'Hanlon
@Ben - Fortunately we've got our own upstairs lounge / bar reserved just for us. Putney Bridge station copes fairly well with football fans, so just make sure you cross the bridge and don't follow the crowd or you'll end up at a football game!
Posted February 18, 2010 at 12:57 PM -
Ben Logan
Hi Nathan - Good stuff - Will see you later on - looking forward to the event and a cold beer :)
Posted February 18, 2010 at 2:58 PM -
A former member
May be able to film. Depends on the presentation format and lighting :-)
Posted February 18, 2010 at 4:55 PM -
Nathan O'Hanlon
@Ross - That's great, I have a flip camera here, or bring your own :)
Posted February 18, 2010 at 5:07 PM -
A former member
@Nathan we'll work something out!
Posted February 18, 2010 at 5:09 PM -
A former member
Re: the lights - Nathan wanted to video record it for the benefit of people who couldn't attend.
Great to meet you all!
Posted February 19, 2010 at 1:28 PM -
Luis Olmos
Very interesting talks. Though my dream of declaring IE6 dead this year was shattered, Nathan's presentation has piqued my interest in learning more about microformats and considering HTML5.
Artur's demonstration was an very enlightening on the subject of screen readers and how markup can be helpful or detrimental to their functionality. Still very surprised at the price of JAWS. Would love to see a link to the video of the talks. Looking forward to the next Meetup.Posted February 19, 2010 at 5:38 PM -
Rob Crowther
Great talks, thanks Nathan and Artur, and great discussion, thanks everyone! I wrote up the evening on my blog if anyone is interested: http://www.boogdesign.com/b2evo/index.php/2010/02/20/lwm-...
Posted February 20, 2010 at 5:03 PM -
Nathan O'Hanlon
Video of this event is now available at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Buca62qXWFQ
with the slides from the first talk (no slides needed for second talk) at:
http://bit.ly/aMvOiG
Thanks heaps to Ross Chapman for filming this. We're short of a video camera for next month, so if anyone's interested in helping, please let me know.Posted February 25, 2010 at 11:32 AM -
Christopher Bolton
The video has been removed as it was too long. I'm gutted I missed this night. It would be nice if you could upload again elsewhere please.
Posted February 25, 2010 at 1:44 PM -
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Nathan O'Hanlon
OK, sorry about that, uploading to Vimeo now (a smaller version at 900kbps instead of 1200) so it gets it under the 500MB free limit.
Posted February 25, 2010 at 3:07 PM -
Nathan O'Hanlon
The video is now available at: http://www.vimeo.com/9731416
. Ignore the YouTube link in the previous email, it's now on Vimeo. Thanks to Ross for filming this!Posted February 27, 2010 at 12:26 PM
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Nathan O'HanlonEvent Host
Organizer+4 guestsGreat to hear that screen reader. Thanks so much to Artur Ortega who demonstrated JAWS and NVDA.
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David LittleVery interesting and useful presentations on HTML5, CSS3 and accessibility. Thanks for organising Nathan. The only problem for me is that I live in SE London so it's a bit of a trek out to Putney (well, back from Putney to home). Is there any chance we might look at moving the venue a bit closer to the centre of town? It might make it a bit more attractive to other non-SWers too.
Having said that, looking forward to the next one. I think the format worked very well and the atmosphere was very relaxed so it was easy just to chat to others.
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Kristy HainesIt might be worthwhile turning off some of the lights so people can focus more on the projector. Also, look at getting sponsorship and the meetup web group branding up on the projector at the start.
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Dammit, missed the first one because of working late and now im on the waiting list...mehhhh!!!