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May Meeting (Melbourne)

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Date: Thursday 03 May, 2007

Event Details

Two of Australia's foremost experts on web accessibility, Russ Weakley and Roger Hudson, are in town giving workshops on CSS and accessibility. Both have kindly agreed to give a free talk to the Melbourne Web Standards Group on Thursday, May 3.

Note this month we are trialling a new venue, the Bell's Hotel & Brewery in South Melbourne. Don't turn up at the regular venue in Collins Street, or you'll be sorely disappointed!

Roger Hudson: Exploring Tag Clouds, and How Users Interact With Them

Roger Hudson This presentation will explore ways of classifying information including the use of facets which can provide web users with a variety of information retrieval starting points. Roger will also look at the growing demand by
users for greater control over how information is classified and the emerging role of tags, tag clouds and folksonomies.

Roger Hudson from Web Usability provides website usability and accessibility services to corporate, government and not-for-profit organizations. As an accessibility specialist, he is familiar with the needs of people with different disabilities and how these needs can be most effectively met.

Roger has a detailed understanding of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and has undertaken a range of accessibility research projects. He has conducted many usability and accessibility evaluations with a wide range of web users including those with disabilities.

Russ Weakley: Letting Users Control Their Own Experience

Russ Weakley Imagine you were in control of a large web site with an inconsistent and unwieldy hierarchy. What if you had complete freedom to redevelop the web site from the ground up? What would you do? This presentation discusses a range of ideas that challenge the way we structure web site content in order to allow users more control of their own experience.

Russ Weakley is a standards-based web designer, developer and trainer from Max Design who has worked in the web industry for 10 years. Russ co-chairs the Web Standards Group and co-founded Web Essentials.

Russ has also produced a series of widely acclaimed CSS-based tutorials including Listamatic, Listamatic2, Listutorial, Floatutorial, Selectutorial. He recently wrote his first book, Teach Yourself CSS in 10 Minutes.

Meeting Time?

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007
6:30pm - 7:00pm - Nibbles, drinks and networking
7:00pm - 7:45pm - Roger Hudson on Exploring Tag Clouds
7:45pm - 8:30pm - Russ Weakley on Letting Users Control Their Own Experience
8:30pm onwards - port80 drinks and socialising at the bar downstairs

Where Do We Meet?

Note this month that we are using a new venue!

Comments

Posted: 05-May-07 by Matthew Magain

Vote in a poll about the venue used for this meeting: http://forum.webstandardsgroup.org/discussion/78/choice-of-venue-for-last-nights-melbourne-meeting/