Web Standards Group

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December meeting (Sydney)

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Date: Wednesday 05 December, 2007

Event Details

Presentation 1: Geoff Bowers - Setting Fire To Your Community

A tale of Japanese mummies, karmic balance and benevolent dictators. Your guide to putting a torch to your open source community.

Presentation 2: Craig Sharkie - Learning to love libraries

Taking a look at how how JavaScript libraries can aid in developing sites

Presentation 3: Lisa Herrod - RSS to the RSScue

The focus of the presentation will be on the positioning of RSS links, the choice of labels, iconography and how this may impact the user experience. Currently there is a significant amount of inconsistency across online publications and other sites, which isn't helping the case. And who the hell knows what 'RSS Feed' means anyway?!

From an accessibility perspective, it's possible that RSS may offer a legitimate way of serving plain text content, diminishing the need for users to negotiate navigation, banner ads and endless lists of headings and links. But do blind users know what it is and how to use it? We'll look at some recent research and accessible aggregators as well.

Webby Geeks have been taking advantage of RSS for years, maybe it's time for us to join ranks and make it easier for everyone to use!

Presentation 4: Steve Baty - tinyURL and trust relationships online

This will look at the role of trust and credibility in establishing commercial and social relationships online and how devices such as tinyurl, URLtea and decentURL can undermine that trust when used inappropriately, or without the required context.

When

Wednesday 5 December

Time

6.30pm for a 7pm start

Where

Australian Museum
6 College Street Sydney
(opposite Hyde Park)
Search and Discover room - Level 2

Cost

$10 per head - covers nibbles and drink!

Hope to see you there!