WordCamp Lancaster

Giving my talk at WordCamp LancasterGiving my talk at WordCamp Lancaster
Giving my talk at WordCamp Lancaster01-Mar-2014 15:11, HTC EVO, 2.0, 3.63mm, 0.05 sec, ISO 222
 

I’ve lived in the Philly area more than 10 years, and yesterday was my first time visiting Lancaster, because I finally had a good reason to go! I gave a presentation at WordCamp Lancaster. It was the first WordCamp in Lancaster, and had a single track, with web accessibility as the theme:

The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.

— Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of the World Wide Web

There were a bunch of great talks. I especially enjoyed Aaron Jorbin’s and David Kennedy’s:

My talk focused on the language aspects of accessibility, which entailed a discussion of internationalization, localization, and character sets. The title alone was a mouthful: “A11Y? I18N? L10N? UTF8? WTF? Understanding the connections between accessibility, internationalization, localization, and character sets” (slides are below). I managed to make people laugh while discussing character encoding, so I must have done something right.

I also enjoyed having the opportunity to meet and talk with George Stephanis
(@daljo628S), who organized the WordCamp, Scott González (@scott_gonzalez) the jQuery UI project lead, and catch up with Jason Coleman (‏@jason_coleman), Liam Dempsey ‏(@liamdempsey), and Eric (@ericandrewlewis).

WordCamp Lancaster also had one of the nicest designs for a WordCamp t-shirt that I’ve seen.

Here are my slides (if you view them on slidehsare.net you can see my notes as well), and hopefully the video will be up on WordPress.tv soon.

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