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Web Directions South 09 Resources — many more now online

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• By:Maxine
• October 23, 2009
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Thanks to the tire­less efforts of Guy in prepar­ing all the pages and pro­duc­ing all the pod­casts, we now have a whole raft of the pre­sen­ta­tions from WDS09 now avail­able online, so, if you’re look­ing to catch some­thing you missed because you you went to another track, or you couldn’t make it to Web Directions at all this year, check the list­ing below.

Many of the speak­ers have even gone to the trou­ble of synch­ing the audio with the slides, so it really is a lot like being there on the day: enjoy!

There’s some great con­tent here — we’d love it if you could help us spread the word about these resources in par­tic­u­lar to peo­ple who couldn’t be there on the day, by blog­ging about them twit­ter­ing, or just email­ing the link around to all your colleagues.

Keynotes

• Matt Webb — Escalante (pod­cast only, slides to come)
• Cameron Adams — Making Waves
• Kelly Goto — WorkFLOW

Design track

• Pete Ottery — Designing for Suits
• Donna Spencer — Information Seeking Behaviours
• Christian Crumlish — Designing Social Interfaces
• Jeremy Yuille — The Social Life of Visualisation
• Grant Robinson — Visualising the User Experience
• Luke Stevens — Data Driven Design

Development track

• Ben Galbraith — The State of Developer Tools
• Elliot Jay Stocks — Progressive Enhancement
• Mark Stanton — Best Practices for Speeding up Your Site
• Rob Mitchell & Mike Williams – Test your JavaScript

Business track

• Lachlan Hardy — The Open Web
• Cheryl Gledhill and Scott Gledhill — Beyond SEO
• Suze Ingram — Would You Like Service Design With That?
• Andrew Fisher — Cloud Computing

We also have video from the W3C track, which we’ll be mak­ing avail­able soon.

10 responses to “Web Directions South 09 Resources — many more now online”:

1. • By:Web Directions South 2009 « Blog @ JodieM.com.au
   • October 26th, 2009

   […] are some Podcasts up on the Web Directions site from a few of the major speak­ers, but with­out the video I think some of them will loose their […]

2. • By:Deaf User
   • October 30th, 2009
   

   How about tran­scripts that you were promis­ing me? They are also part of W3C’s Priority 1 require­ments for web acces­si­bil­ity and many coun­tries’ dis­abil­ity laws. Thanks.

3. • By:Geoff Chapman
   • November 4th, 2009
   

   Thanks for all the huge amount of work putting all the resources up here that you have done so far. Very cool. However Does your men­tion of “video com­ing soon” for the w3c track, mean that there will be no audio pod­casts from that track at all? Thanks.

4. • By:Geoff Chapman
   • November 4th, 2009
   

   Also won­der­ing if their are more resources from the devel­op­ment track yet to come? look­ing speci­ficly for one pre­sented by a woman from mel­bourne whose name unfor­tu­nately escapes me for the moment, on Web Accessibility Guidelines 1.0/2.0 com­pli­ance, at either the 10:45 or 11:45 ses­sion Fri morning?

5. • By:Guy Leech
   • November 5th, 2009
   

   Hey Geoff,

   While we’d like to pro­vide audio for all the tracks, there were some tech­ni­cal dif­fi­cul­ties around record­ing the W3C track, so it’s unlikely that we’ll get audio for them.

   As for the WCAG pre­sen­ta­tion, Gian Wild (that’s the pre­sen­ter) hasn’t got back to us with per­mis­sion to pub­lish her talk; if she does, we’ll get it up ASAP, but for now there’s not much I can do.

6. • By:Deaf User
   • November 25th, 2009
   

   Dear Guy Leech,

   Since Geoff Champan asked for Gian Wild’s pre­sen­ta­tion about web acces­si­bil­ity guide­lines, I won­der if it would come with a tran­script also for those who have no access to audio content?

   A text is actu­ally acces­si­ble and usable for more users than an audio file. A tran­script can be eas­ily skimmed for a few min­utes while it takes hours to lis­ten to numer­ous podcasts.

7. • By:Guy Leech
   • November 26th, 2009
   

   I’m afraid Gian Wild’s ses­sion didn’t come with a tran­script, though Matt Webb just released the slides and a tran­script of his keynote.

8. • By:Deaf User
   • December 16th, 2009
   

   Thanks for point­ing out, Guy Leech. But just one tran­script? Gian Wild’s pre­sen­ta­tion does not even have a link to the transcript.

   To Maxine:
    – “Many of the speak­ers have even gone to the trou­ble of synch­ing the audio with the slides, so it really is a lot like being there on the day: enjoy!”

   Maybe they should have spent more time on get­ting a tran­script instead so that peo­ple like myself can enjoy it, too?

   - “There’s some great con­tent here — we’d love it if you could help us spread the word about these resources in par­tic­u­lar to peo­ple who couldn’t be there on the day, by blog­ging about them twit­ter­ing, or just email­ing the link around to all your colleagues.”

   How about help­ing those who can­not access to “great content”?

9. • By:Deaf User
   • December 16th, 2009
   

   To Maxine:

   P.S. If speak­ers spent more time on tran­scripts, it would be not only acces­si­ble to more peo­ple like myself, but more usable for every­one to let those who pre­fer to skim text instead of lis­ten­ing to hour-​​long podcasts.

10. • By:Deaf User
    • December 16th, 2009
    

    There is an excel­lent blog by Jeremy Keith about transcripts:

    http://​adac​tio​.com/​j​o​u​r​n​a​l​/​1​1​20/

    He made sev­eral points:

    - “It does cost money, but then so does band­width. Bandwidth is often cov­ered by spon­sor­ship or a PayPal tip jar, so why not transcriptions?”

    - “By pro­vid­ing a tran­scrip­tion, you’ll also be pro­vid­ing a spi­der­able resource than can be eas­ily scanned, quoted, cut and pasted. And you’ll get lots of whuffie.”

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