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Slides for Accessibility Presentation At LCA2010 Business Miniconf

February 26th, 2010

On 18 January, I spoke about the advantages for FOSS projects to add accessibility to their software. From a business point of view, it opens new markets, such as: government, universities, and non-profits.

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I Offer To Build An Accessible Website For The Nevada Blind Children Foundation

June 18th, 2009

It appears my previous post about the Nevada Blind Children's Foundation being "Flash only" made a lot of noise, and upset people. I had been planning to write a follow-up post. A recent post on Darrel Shandrow's blog prompts me to write this follow-up faster than planned!

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Lynne Pope and Ada Lovelace Day

March 24th, 2009

Today is Ada Lovelace Day, "an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology". Today I'll talk about a woman I admire, and some of the things she's done.

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Nicolas Steenhout to Present at OSDC 2008

September 19th, 2008

My presentation proposal to the Open Source Developers Conference 2008 was accepted. The presentation, titled "Web Accessibility and Content Management Systems", will be one of the "Extended Talks" available at the Conference. There is a lot of room for improvement in the level of accessibility of CMS, and I am both excited and honoured at the chance to discuss these issues with fellow open source developers.

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