A nice couple of articles at ALA this week. One dealing with tweaking Dreamweaver for better XHTML compliance. The second, dealing with Web Accessibility, touches on what toolmakers like Macromedia, Adobe, and Microsoft are doing to make the designer/developer’s job easier.
Which brings me to yesterday.
I’d decided to go to the Web Accessibility Seminar offered by Macromedia [pic]. I spent more time getting there than I did at the actual seminar. Delay after delay, from bridge traffic, to my train being delayed a half hour, prevented me from getting to the seminar on time. Once there, not much went on. I arrived and got seated slightly after 2:00pm. It was a fairly sparse gathering. A couple of people in my row were napping.
By 2:25pm the demonstration laptop, running Windows XP, crashed while trying to load GW Micro’s Window-Eyes. We took a 10 minute break while it was rebooted. Upon returning we delved back into some more accessibility in Flash MX. We were maybe 10 minutes into it when, again, the laptop crashed while trying to load Window-Eyes. It was at this point that the seminar’s moderator decided to call off the rest of the seminar to do a little Q&A, and raffle off the schwag. I won a Macromedia Training from the Source book. Instead of keeping it, I gave it to a grateful young girl in my row who had been openly hoping to win it. ’Cause ya know, I’m all about the little people.
All in all, the seminar was a bit of a waste. Nothing too exciting to report. Flash MX seems to have some nice improvements. Wish there was more to report.
2 responses so far ↓
1 Ismene // Feb 7, 2004 at 1:36 am
Dude, this is too wierd. I found you on Google, because I’m looking for red towels everywhere and can’t find them and now you turn out to be a librarian as well? That is too eerie, my friend, too eerie.
2 michael // Feb 7, 2004 at 9:49 am
Who’s a librarian?
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