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Helen gave a lecture as part of UEL's public lecture series entitled 'Inclusive New Media: designing accessible websites'. The public lectures showcase some of UEL's latest research and are pitched for a diverse audience and free to all.
Helen organised a seminar at UEL on ‘Media Work’, where she spoke along with Dr Mark Deuze from Indiana University, and Professor Rosalind Gill of the Open University.
Simon has had a paper accepted for presentation at California State University, Northridge, Center on Disabilities’ 23rd Annual International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference in March 2008. The paper is called ‘Multimedia Advocacy for People with Intellectual Disabilities – Models of Best Practice’.
Helen has submitted a paper to a conference entitled Building an inclusive Web 2.0: reflections on the role of web professionals at Royal Holloway, University of London, to be held in April 2008.
Helen has also organised a panel for the Cultural Studies Association conference in New York in May 2008. The panel is called ‘The Politics of Creative Work’; her paper is called ‘Net Work: creativity, affect and the professionalisation of web design’.
Some accessibility sites are downright ugly, but the problem lies with those sites’ designers and not with accessibility, which carries no visual penalty.
Jeffrey Zeldman, Designing with Web Standards, 2003
Although serving the needs of people with disabilities should of course be a concern, the far wider issue – that accessibility is a matter of usability – has rarely been discussed. As designer professionals, we should be designing our content so it is globally accessible and meets the needs of as many people as is possible and practical given our specific circumstances, regardless of their abilities or the type of device they choose to access the Web
Andy Clarke, Transcending CSS: the fine art of web design, 2006
