While I didn’t make it to Code4Lib 2015 this year, I did manage to catch the closing keynote on the livestream, so here are the notes. Continue reading “Code4Lib 2015: Closing Keynote”
Presentation: Making Accessible Content Easy and Part of Your Work
This was originally presented as an online workshop for the Center for Instructional Development & Distance Education, University of Pittsburgh on February 5, 2015. If you’re familiar with my presentations, everything up to and including the introduction to universal design is quite similar to my past presentations (especially the most recent one). However, after that, this presentation focuses solely on creating content, both online (such as using WordPress) and using software (such as Microsoft Word). As you can imagine, this presentation was geared towards non-technical users, going into much more detail on content guidelines than in any of my other presentations, and for UPitt faculty and staff. Continue reading “Presentation: Making Accessible Content Easy and Part of Your Work”
Building Community by Providing Great Experiences
Over the weekend, I decided to change my theme from the WordPress TwentyThirteen to TwentyFifteen. I switched mainly because I wanted a more accessible theme, and also because I was getting tired of looking at the Thirteen one. Another nice feature was the menu and sidebar integration. It may actually take up more space, but it also forced me to re-evaluate what I thought was important and what I could simply leave out. (I now have 1 widget as opposed to 5.)
Anyway, that’s not the reason I’m writing. The reason for that is that over the weekend I found a bug, filed it, and it was closed in 22 hours! Continue reading “Building Community by Providing Great Experiences”
Making Web Services Accessible With Universal Design
This was presented as a webinar for the Education Institute on Thursday, January 22, 2015. This presentation is mostly an amalgamation of the Access 2014 and LibTechConf 2014 presentations. There are a couple of small sections (namely analytics, how ever did I forget about that?) that have been added, but a lot of it is recap for those who have seen my presentations before. Continue reading “Making Web Services Accessible With Universal Design”
Remix the Web! Using Mozilla Webmaker for Library Workshops & Programming
This was presented as a webinar for the Education Institute on Thursday, January 15. I metaphorically twisted Tamarack Hockin’s arm into presenting on the more interesting and practical parts of this topic. Continue reading “Remix the Web! Using Mozilla Webmaker for Library Workshops & Programming”