February 2009
4 posts
Feb 21st
WAVE results →
Sigh… this page had an accessibility error. (that search input field above here, in the div with the id “search,” needed a label.  Don’t worry, I fixed it.) Accessibility practice starts with the glow, even the righteousness of the mission.  But, as it continues, that glow has to be channeled into the patience and cleverness required to put that mission into policy.  It...
Feb 21st
Feb 21st
Feb 21st
January 2009
1 post
The John Slatin Captioning Project →
The Captioning Project, enabled by administrative grant funds and in collaboration with UT Services for Students with Disabilities, allows UT TeamWeb to broker captioning and transcribing of multimedia, primarily for student use.  It’s an opportunity for us to serve the university community and to preserve John’s mission.
Jan 31st
November 2008
6 posts
Nov 16th
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 →
John was an editor and committee co-chair for the W3C’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, version 2.0.  WCAG 2.0 is the result of several years of work and is a pivotal common document for the Web, bearing the influence of — and shaping the future choices of — institutions from NIST to ANEC to Adobe, IBM, Google, Microsoft, and SAP.
Nov 16th
Work and the Accessibility Institute
I came back to campus in May 2008 to work with the University’s central information technology group.  It was a little more than a month after John passed away. Right away, I started getting information about the Accessibility Institute being in limbo: it wasn’t clear what would happen next to it, who would own it, what could keep it going. There was a moment of excitement there...
Nov 16th
Save the Accessibility Institute
Petition Zeldman Austin Chronicle Universally Designed The Web Standards Project WAC List at Ohio State Photo from flickr
Nov 16th
The Accessibility Institute →
The Accessibility Institute, which closed August 2008.
Nov 16th
Start
How to talk about my work with “a short reflection of John’s influence on my work”?  This might be different for me since my work isn’t scholarship, and John’s influence on my work doesn’t entirely fit within models of scholarly influence. My work products are not necessarily written, or when written aren’t the genres that we associate with...
Nov 16th