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Link Roundup – December 2010

Year In Review Links

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Podcast #87: Web Axe 2010 Year in Review

Download Web Axe Episode 87 (Web Axe 2010 Year in Review)

Transcript of podcast 87

Transcript sponsored by Crein: Centre de recherche et d’expérimentation sur l’inclusion numérique (Centre for Research and experimentation on digital inclusion). An organization from Québec, Canada, “promoting digital inclusion of persons with disabilities”.

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Canceled Accessibility Event

Very disappointing news today. The AccessU West conference by Knowbility scheduled for January 10-12 in San Jose, California, has been officially cancelled due to low registration numbers.

The AccessU training conference in Austin, Texas, May 17-19, 2011, will be held as usual. This event is the original from Knowbility and continues to be very successful. You can also follow Knowbility on Twitter.

Still, it’s so saddening that a web accessibility event with major speakers (such as Derek Featherstone and yours truly) has such little interest. Especially in Silicon Valley. Here are some reasons I suspect. Can you think of any other?

  1. Accessibility is not “cool” in Bay area where other exciting web technology is created.
  2. Bad timing; beginning of year may be not ideal for people’s personal schedules and business’ budgets.
  3. Competition – too many other great webinars, conferences, and meetups to choose from.
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Accessibility Toolkit on OneForty

I’ve created an Accessibility toolkit for accessibility-related Twitter applications on the website OneForty, a great directory of Twitter-related apps. A “toolkit” is a collection of apps with a theme in common. There are only four apps listed in my toolkit so far, so I’d surely welcome any suggestions. Note that the app must be listed on OneForty to be included in a toolkit.

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Upcoming Accessibility Events

Here are some great events relating to web accessibility that are occurring soon.

Any missing in the next month? If so, please add in the comments.