Web Directions

Cheryl Lead and Ben Buchanan — Moving your organisation to web standards

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• By:Guy Leech
• September 30, 2006
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A pre­sen­ta­tion given at Web Directions South, Sydney Australia, September 29 2006.

• MP3 of presentation
• Presentation slides (Ben Buchanan)
• Session descrip­tion
• LiveBlog post
• About Cheryl Lead and Ben Buchanan

Presentation slides

Session descrip­tion

This was one of our most loved ses­sions last year, so much so that we decided to do it again this year, with some new faces, some new expe­ri­ences. With speak­ers from both government/​education as well as the pri­vate sec­tor, get advice from those who’ve already been there on deal­ing with recal­ci­trant man­age­ment, teams mem­bers and agen­cies, build­ing by stealth and mak­ing incre­men­tal change.

About Cheryl Lead and Ben Buchanan

Cheryl Lead

Cheryl Lead is the Online Manager at Virgin Money and was responsible for driving the design and development of the redesigned Virgin Credit Card site and the recently launched Virgin Home Loan website. She is a strong champion of accessibility, usability and web standards. Her key drivers were to ensure that they are optimally accessible to the largest client base, and clearly and simply designed to encourage people to navigate through complex product documentation to gather information and apply online, as well as reflecting the Virgin brand values and sense of fun.

Ben Buchanan

Ben Buchanan started cre­at­ing web pages ten years ago while com­plet­ing a degree in every­thing but I.T. He started work­ing as a web devel­oper in 1999 and was the Web Standards Developer at Griffith University for six years (2000 – 2006). He worked with a wide range of clients within the University and was involved with the devel­op­ment of three gen­er­a­tions of the Griffith website.

Ben Buchanan is known as a pas­sion­ate web stan­dards and acces­si­bil­ity advo­cate through his work, pub­lic speak­ing and writ­ing at the 200ok weblog. He now works as a Frontend Developer for News Interactive.

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