Archives for May, 2009
The call for review of the working draft of ATAG 2.0 – the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines – is now open. You can submit your comments until June 11. What needs to be reviewed? This 2.0 working draft of the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) published 21 May 2009. How to review ATAG 2.0 If [...]
Are you ignoring an important market sector? How do we make our communications usable by people with hearing and sight difficulties? How do we work with colleagues and customers who have hearing and sight difficulties? The Society for Technical Communication UK and Ireland chapter is pleased to announce this major event that will give you [...]
Photos of the conference taken by Rachel Houghton and Cynthia A. Lockley are up. So far there are 13 photos available. If anyone else has photos to add to the SIG’s conference collection, please use the Contact Us form to let us know. This year’s conference photos are at http://www.stc-access.org/photos/album/72157618066308364/stc-2009-annual-conference-atlanta-ga.html All our photo collections are [...]
David Pogue, the Keynote speaker at the STC conference, gave one of the funniest keynotes we’ve ever had. It was a shame that it wasn’t recorded. However, I found a recording of a similar keynote address he gave to TED last year. The first half is similar to the one he gave to us and [...]
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