Podcast 93: Teaching Mistakes




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Summary: Dennis talks briefly about a couple of his recent presentations, a few other presentations and articles, and has a great conversation with Katherine Lynch. Download Web Axe Episode 93 (Teaching Mistakes) [Transcript of podcast 93] HappeningsBusy new day job for Dennis at PayPal.Two recent presentations by Dennis. Shout out to Norm Coombs of EASI (Equal Access to Software and Information) and John Croston (@jfc3) for putting on the Accessibility DC meetup. Articles How Expensive is Accessibility? (by @KarlGroves)ARIA and HTML5 Accessibility (by @WebAIM)Screen readers and CSS (by @RogerJohansson)HTML5 Video Accessibility (by @SilviaPfeiffer) Discussion with Katherine Lynch. Katherine Lynch who works for Drexel University Libraries in Philadelphia. Katherine is a Drupal and accessibility professional and has done many presentations and written many articles. Find her on Twitter at @katelynch. Dennis and Katherine discuss her recent article 5 Teaching Mistakes Accessibility Advocates Make: We assume that others don't know anything.We assume that others know too much.We get hung up on one cause of accessibility.We try to convert people who don't need converting.We blame people for not already knowing. Related Links Contacting Organizations about Inaccessible Websites (W3C WAI)Facebook Accessibility contact formFix the WebThesis: Responding to accessibility issues in business