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Jeremy Keith & Derek Featherstone — Web Apps — Ajax Kung Fu Meets Accessibility Feng Shui

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• By:jessie
• January 18, 2008
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A pre­sen­ta­tion given at at Web Directions North, Vancouver, February 7, 2007.

• MP3 of presentation
• Presentation slides (PDF, 33MB)
• Session descrip­tion
• About Jeremy Keith
• About Derek Featherstone

Session descrip­tion

Where can you find Ajax enlight­en­ment? At the mys­ti­cal point where a kick-​​ass appli­ca­tion con­nects per­fectly with the Flow of the best user expe­ri­ences. Let Masters Jeremy and Derek guide you there.

You seek to infuse your work, whether an app or a web site fea­ture, with the power of Ajax. But, tak­ing the wrong path at the begin­ning of your project will lead to frus­tra­tion for vis­i­tors, rather than a grace­ful, intu­itive expe­ri­ence. True Masters start with the right ques­tions: When is Ajax an enhance­ment? When is it a hin­drance? How can its energy be chan­neled ele­gantly? This insight­ful ses­sion will be grounded in real-​​life exam­ples and demon­stra­tions, reveal­ing the impact of the choices we make. Above all, you’ll learn the strate­gi­cal think­ing and higher per­spec­tive that will ensure a bril­liantly user-​​centered web site.

About Jeremy Keith

Jeremy Keith is a web devel­oper with the web con­sul­tancy firm Clearleft in Brighton, England where he enjoys build­ing acces­si­ble, ele­gant web­sites using the troika of web stan­dards: XHTML, CSS and the DOM. His online home is adac​tio​.com.

Jeremy is a mem­ber of the Web Standards Project where he serves as joint leader of the DOM Scripting Task Force. He wrote the book DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model.

When he’s not build­ing web­sites, Jeremy plays bouzouki in the alt.country band Salter Cane. He is also the cre­ator and cura­tor of one of the Web’s largest online com­mu­ni­ties ded­i­cated to Irish tra­di­tional music, The Session.

About Derek Featherstone

Engaging, sur­pris­ing, and inspir­ing, Derek Featherstone has a gift for tak­ing a fresh look at vir­tu­ally every aspect of web devel­op­ment and teach­ing it in a way that renews our pas­sion for mak­ing the web bet­ter for every­one. Featherstone is an internationally-​​known author­ity on acces­si­bil­ity and web devel­op­ment, and a respected tech­ni­cal trainer, and author.

Creator of in-​​depth courses on HTML, CSS, DOM Scripting, and Web 2.0 appli­ca­tions, his approach never fails to cham­pion the cause of web stan­dards and uni­ver­sal acces­si­bil­ity. As founder of Furtherahead, he has been an in-​​demand con­sul­tant to gov­ern­ment agen­cies, edu­ca­tional insti­tu­tions and pri­vate sec­tor com­pa­nies since 1999. His wealth of expe­ri­ence and insight enables him to pro­vide audi­ences with imme­di­ately applic­a­ble, bril­liantly sim­ple approaches to every­day chal­lenges in web­site design. He serves on the Accessibility and DOM Scripting Task Forces of the Web Standards Project, and com­ments on a vari­ety of sub­jects at the pop­u­lar box​of​choco​lates​.ca.

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2 responses to “Jeremy Keith & Derek Featherstone — Web Apps — Ajax Kung Fu Meets Accessibility Feng Shui”:

1. • By:SVeta
   • October 21st, 2008
   

   Where’s tran­scrip­tion? Podcast is not acces­si­ble for deaf and hard of hear­ing users like myself.

2. • By:interaktif tasarım hakkında türkçe herşey » Blog Archive » IxDA ve Core77′de Tartışılanlar: 2 Ocak 2009
   • January 2nd, 2009

   […] çalışan Derek Featherstone‘un Eylül’de Web Direction South‘da yap­tığı sunumu ve diğer çalış­maları, örnek olarak gös­ter­ildi. Öner­ilen bir diğer kaynak […]

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