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Date: Thursday 24 February, 2005
The Wellington Web Standards Group is pleased to announce our February meeting, featuring three great speakers, food, drink, good company and a healthy dose of web standards!
The cost for the evening is $75. This includes drinks (wine, beer and juice) and finger food during the breaks.
You will need to register beforehand in order to attend the evening. For details on registration, contact Mike Brown at: wellington@webstandardsgroup.org
New media emerge from their ancestors, cinema from the stage, photography from painting, television from radio and cinema, the web predominantly from print. The pioneers in a medium very often come from their precursors. Those who worked in early television were often radio producers, actors, presenters (hence the expression a good face for radio). And so it is for many of us working with the web.
In this presentation, John Allsopp takes a look at a number of media we take for granted including, photography, cinema, radio, and television in their infancy, and asks what lessons can we learn about the web, today, in its own infancy.
John Allsopp is a founder of Westciv, an Australian web software development and training company, which provides some of the best CSS resources and tutorials on the web. Westciv's software and training are used in dozens of countries around the World.
The head developer of the leading cross platform CSS editor, Style Master, John has written on web development issues for numerous web and print publications and was one of the earliest members of the Web Standards Project. He is a tireless Web Standards activist.
Jonathan is blind and has in the pastprovided web accessibility advice to a range of Government and private agencies. He will be demonstrating how web accessibility doesn't mean that web designers have to sacrifice innovation or creativity. He will also be demonstrating the kind of technology blind people are using today to surf the web, showing just what a difference an accessible web site can make to a blind person's independence.
Blind since birth, Jonathan Mosen has taken an interest in the civil rights of the blind from his teenage years. He's an accomplished broadcaster and has worked at the Royal New Zealand Foundation for the Blind, and twice been President of the Association of Blind Citizens of New Zealand.
Jonathan established the PC-Audio e-mail list in August 1998. This list now has over 600 contributors from around the globe. The list provides assistance with listening to and recording audio on the PC, with emphasis on techniques that assist the screen reader user, and information on products that work particularly well with screen readers.
Jonathan also established a general blindness technology discussion list called blindtech, where blind computer users can come for expert assistance and to share knowledge.
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