[TriLUG] WWW2010

[Glenn Hennessee]

That's what the student is going for.
glenn

paul jones wrote:
> technologies for access will be the focus of the colocated Web4Access conference
> http://www.w4a.info/
> 7th International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility
>
> html5 will be more in the WWW2010 track
>
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Glenn Hennessee
> <glenn.hennessee at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> I'm not going but NCSU (my employer) is sending a visually impaired student
>> specifically to learn about HTML5 and accessibility. One of the promises of
>> HTML5 is the <video> tag for displaying video in the browser. This will,
>> hopefully and eventually, remove the need for Flash. Flash is a nightmare
>> for the visually impaired and difficult to make accessible. It can be done,
>> Adobe has put hooks in for doing it, but having captioned video display in
>> the browser that a screen reader can access is the goal.
>>
>> One thing I haven't heard about accessibility of is the <canvas> tag.
>> glenn
>>
>>
>> Alan Porter wrote:
>>     
>>> Just wondering if anyone from the LUG is planning
>>> to attend WWW2010 next week.
>>>
>>> 19th International World Wide Web Conference
>>> Raleigh Convention Center
>>> http://www2010.org/
>>>
>>> If so, what are you expecting to see there?
>>>
>>>
>>> Alan
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> .
>>>       
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>> Glenn Hennessee
>> Department of Chemistry
>> NC State University
>> Raleigh, NC 27606
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>> Email: Glenn_Hennessee at ncsu.edu
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Glenn Hennessee
Department of Chemistry
NC State University
Raleigh, NC 27606
Voice: (919) 515-2947 FAX: (919) 515-8909
Email: Glenn_Hennessee at ncsu.edu