Archives for “SIG information”

New Togs for the STC AccessAbility Blog

Posted by kmardahl on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 9:31 am. Comments are off.

Whoa! This site has a new look! What’s the story? Well, we have been having some issues on the back-end. Despite the love for a WordPress theme that was accessible from Day 1 (Sea Beast by the talented Mike Cherim, we had to admit it was a bit old in the code, which required a [...]

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2010 – renewing membership in STC and the SIG

Posted by kmardahl on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 7:30 am. Comments are off.

It’s renewal time for STC members. After a turbulent summer with financial worries, our STC president, Cindy Currie has news about the dues and the effort to find an appropriate solution for all of us. Her complete announcement is on the STC Notebook blog. Please read the complete story, including the fees, over there. This [...]

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The AccessAbility SIG is now tweeting!

Posted by kmardahl on Sunday, November 2, 2008 at 7:14 am. Comments are off.

The SIG has jumped on the Twitter bandwagon. We tweet at http://twitter.com/stcaccess. Tweet? Twitter? Let’s take Twitter first. Twitter is often called micro-blogging. Entries posted to Twitter can only contain 140 characters. These postings, or messages, are called tweets. We have mentioned tweets on this blog earlier in connection with the June 2008 Technical Summit. [...]

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Honors bestowed on SIG members

Posted by kmardahl on Sunday, May 11, 2008 at 7:07 pm. Comments are off.

We are proud to announce that several of the SIG members have been honored for their work in technical communication. STC Associate Fellows Two more members of the AccessAbility SIG can now call themselves STC Associate Fellows. These talented individuals are Gloria Reece and Chauncey Wilson. The stc.org site says To be considered for election [...]

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Why the starfish?

Posted by CynthiaL on Sunday, March 2, 2008 at 9:03 am. Comments are off.

We have to go back to the birth of the SIG for the explanation about the starfish. Judith Skinner, founder of the then Special Needs Committee, now the AccessAbility SIG, concluded her presentation at the STC conference in Orlando with the story: I’m reminded of the story about the beach strewn with starfish and the [...]

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Hello world!

Posted by CynthiaL on Friday, February 1, 2008 at 5:39 am. Comments are off.

Welcome to the STC AccessAbility SIG blog! We are excited about the possibilities a blog format gives us for communication to SIG members and to the world at large. We will post articles and share links that cover standards, legislation, tools and technology, law, and other categories that can keep technical communicators up-to-date with the [...]

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