Session notes from HighEdWeb09
See also my conference recap, my photos ( set 1, set 2), the conference Flickr set, and the conference Twitter stream.
Here, in mostly chronological order, is a big dump in one giant page of all my session notes from HighEdWeb 2009. Most of the presentations themselves will be available for download on the conference site. These are just the points, links, and quotes I found interesting enough to type into Evernote while attending the sessions.
APS1: ADA and Section 508: Best Practices for Web Accessibility for People with Disabilities
This was my first session of the conference, and it set the bar pretty high. Lots of good stuff about accessibility. The main point seemed to be that while standards compliance is good, just fixing the errors in your page to get a clean run through a validator tool doesn’t create usable, accessible web pages. It is much better to learn to code in an accessible manner, and to take the time to understand why the accessibility guidelines are there. Coding HTML in a usable, accessible manner produces better, more usable code. Loved the quote from a designer, "I learned this stuff because of Web accessibility. I use this stuff because its better Web design."
