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Max Design CSS and Accessibility workshop series - 2009

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

We are excited to announce this years workshop series:

Max Design CSS and Accessibility workshop series - 2009

A hands-on workshop with accessibility expert, Roger Hudson, and CSS expert, Russ Weakley:

Day 1: A practical guide to preparing WCAG 2 compliant websites - with Roger Hudson

An all new accessibility workshop that focuses on providing practical advice to help […]

Web-blast 08 - tickets go on sale this morning

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

Web-blast is a huge end-of-year party for Sydney’s web community - bringing together web designers, web project managers, interface designers, information architects and other web professionals. Join a range of Sydney’s web communities and celebrate the end of year in style on Friday 5th December, 2008.
Tickets go on sale at 9am on Thursday 27th November […]

WIPA Web Accessibility 2.0 Seminar

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

Version 2 of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0) is about to be released, introducing some changes in the recommendations for website accessibility. WIPA is presenting this afternoon seminar to help the web community understand WCAG 2.0 and prepare sites with improved accessibility.

Roger Hudson will provide an overview of WCAG 2.0 and the compliance […]

Styling WCAG 2.0 accessible forms with CSS

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

Oz-IA2008 will be held on 20/21 September. Oz-IA is the premier Australian event on Information Architecture for the web. Two incredible days of presentations, panels, and networking with information architects from across Australia and beyond.
I’ll be running a half-day workshop as part of the conference:
Styling WCAG 2.0 accessible forms with CSS
Forms are possibly the hardest […]

we believe in community

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

On the 21st and 22nd of August the inaugural Local Government Web Network Conference was held in Sydney. The conference was organised by Diana Mounter and Reem Abdelaty from the Local Government and Shires Associations of New South Wales. There was definitely a great vibe at the event - and a great speaker list!
Here are […]

Sydney WSG meeting Tuesday 19 August

Sunday, July 13th, 2008

A HUGE Sydney web standards group meeting coming up on Tuesday 19 August. We have three great presentations and four great presenters!

Presentation 1: “Findability: going beyond SEO”

Presenter: Radica Raeves

Search engine optimisation is usually the first subject that comes to mind when thinking about ways to improve the visibility of your organisation online. But it’s only […]

Sydney WSG meeting 16 May

Monday, April 28th, 2008

We are very excited to announce a special Web Standards Group meeting will be held on Friday 16 May at 7pm with two international speakers from the W3C - Richard Ishida and José Manuel Alonso.
Details:
What: Sydney Web Standards Group meeting
When: Friday 16 May
Time: 6.30pm for 7pm start
Where: Australian Museum 6 College Street Sydney
Cost: Drinks and […]

BarCampSydney3 tomorrow!

Friday, April 4th, 2008

See you all tomorrow - Saturday
The event will be held at the Roundhouse - UNSW on the corner of Anzac Parade and High Street, Kensington.
Check the interactive map to see exactly where the Roundhouse is within the Uni Grounds.
Remember, at the start of each day we will open up the schedules for each room […]

Canberra Website User Experience and CSS workshop - finished

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

Donna Maurer and I have just wrapped up our first 2-day Website user experience & CSS workshop in Canberra. An enthusiastic and fun group of people!
Some feedback from participants includes:
Well structured, plenty of interactivity
Made CSS click together for me - solved some issues!
Fantastic, entertaining

BarCampSydney3 - now 5 and 6 April

Friday, March 7th, 2008

We are excited to now announce the date and time for a huge BarCampSydney3.

When:
5th and 6th April 2008
Where:
Roundhouse at UNSW on Anzac Pde, Kensington
More info:
About BarCampSydney
BarCampSydney wiki
BarCampSydney - Signup