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December 2008 Where I’ve been, where I’m going
Why I had to cancel my appearance at the Future Insights Live conference, and where I’ll be speaking at in the future.
I’ve been very quiet on Twitter and email lately because I had jury duty from April 3 to May 8. (It was a murder and kidnapping trial. Not fun!) I was supposed to speak at Future Insights Live (FILive) the first week of May but was forced to cancel due to my jury service, and since you’re not supposed to talk about being on a jury while you’re on it, I couldn’t even let people know this to apologize in advance! (Other than the conference organizers—I did notify them and tell them how sorry and disappointed I was.) So now that I can talk about it, let me apologize after the fact: If you were expecting to see me at FILive, I’m very sorry I couldn’t be there. I’ve never had to cancel a speaking engagement before and wouldn’t have done so this time if I weren’t forced to.
Hopefully, you’ll be able to come see me speak at Future of Web Design (FOWD) this fall instead. I don’t have many details right now, but the plan is to give the same presentation on “The Future of CSS Layout” at FOWD, since the Carsonified folks graciously agreed to let me switch from FILive to FOWD. I’ll share more details when I have them!
In the meantime, I’ll be speaking in just a couple weeks (May 23, to be exact) at the Society for Technical Communication Summit in my home city of Chicago. The presentation is on one of my favorite topics: media queries and responsive design.
Related Posts:
My recent posts
- Media queries presentation at indieconf
- Download the slides for my presentation on CSS3: Using Media Queries to Improve the Web Site Experience for indieconf, as well as get links to related resources on media query techniques, tools, and inspiration.
- Web accessibility presentation and resources
- Download the slides for my presentation on Web Accessibility for the Charlotte User Experience group, as well as get links to related resources on accessibility techniques and tools.
- Essential considerations for crafting quality media queries
- Learn what you need to know to set up media queries that maximize efficiency and robustness for your particular project. There are pros and cons to making your media queries embedded versus external, overlapping versus stacking your media queries, starting with mobile versus desktop styles, and using conditional comments versus JavaScript to add support for IE 8 and earlier versions.
- Videos of screen readers using ARIA, updated
- Recordings of screen readers using web page components that do and do not make use of WAI-ARIA can be a good educational resource for why ARIA is important to accessibility. Here are all the videos of such demos that I’ve found.
- A few links: CSS and accessibility
- A few links to handy articles from 456 Berea Street related to CSS and accessibility: using list-style:none, using display:table, and styling buttons to look like links.