This all-day online training event will be presented in the Peeples Auditorium at 2600 Bull St and will feature the following talks from some of the web’s foremost accessibility experts:

• 9:00 a.m. – Christopher Schmitt: “Accessibility & HTML5”
• 10:00 a.m. – Aaron Gustafson: “Progressive Enhancement with ARIA”
• 11:00 a.m. – Jared Smith: “Accessibility & Compatibility”
• 12:00 p.m. – Marla Erwin: “Accessible CSS”
• 1:00 p.m. – Lunch Break
• 1:30 p.m. – Glenda Sims: “Practical Accessibility Testing”
• 2:30 p.m. – Daniel Hubbell: “Future Trends in Accessibility”
• 3:30 p.m. – Derek Featherstone: “Mobile Accessibility”
• 4:30 p.m. – Matt May: “Is Universal Design Still Possible?”

You may attend as many (or all) of the talks you like, but space is limited for this free event. Visit SCATP’s 2010 Training page for details on how to register.

New Riders’ Voices That Matter: Web Design Conference, now in its fourth consecutive year, will take place June 28-29 in San Francisco at the Mission Bay Conference Center. The conference brings together respected industry authors and thought-leaders of the Web design revolution like Robert Hoekman, Jr., Dan Cederholm, Steve Krug, and Emily Lewis, just to name a few.

They’re offering user group members $150 off the current price of the Core Conference or Core Conference and Seminar package when they register with Priority Code WDUSERG. You can save even more when this discount is combined with the Early Bird pricing, but you have to register by May 14th!

For conference registration info and the speaker schedule visit:
http://www.voicesthatmatter.com/webdesign2010/

There is a flyer for this and here are some special details if you think you’d like to take them up on this:

1. Must register by 11:59 p.m. this Friday, April 9 to qualify for the Apple iPad to be given away.
2. After April 9 the cost to register increases.
3. If anyone simply can’t pay the $39, Contact Todd Lewis at 803-240-1213 to register. They’ve set aside a fund pool to pay for anyone that can’t get the cost approved or can’t pay it out-of-pocket. They just don’t want anyone not attending because of money.
4. They’ll feed you! All attendees will receive a morning break, lunch, and an afternoon break.

You can register here.

Web Development Quickstart With Rails – Wednesday, April 14th

Along with POSSCON comes POSSDEV which is a day of development talks from some of the open source community’s biggest names. There is an opportunity for a more technical and comprehensive training session on Rails as part of all this. POSSDEV has added a Rails Jumpstart class on Wednesday, April 14th. This course is offered as a complete kickstart into the Rails ecosystem. Within the first few minutes you will have a database driven web application, and shortly after, your site will be running in a live production environment.

Then, they’ll step back and look at the foundation for Rails, the pragmatic language, Ruby.

Advanced topics include Rails 3, testing, and alternative markup languages, haml and sass.

Find a course outline here and register here.

When: January 8-9th, 2010
Where: ATDC 75 5th Street NW, Suite 202, Atlanta, GA 30308 (map)
Cost: $45 ($35 Earlybird – till Dec 13th)

If you’ve never heard of Barcamp, the homepage puts it in as few words as possible:

“It’s an ad-hoc, user generated unconference, where participation not observation is key. It’s a day where people gather and share in an open environment.”

When: Saturday, October 24th, 2009 from 8am – 6pm
Where: Lowcountry Innovation Center, 1535 Hobby St, North Charleston, SC 29405
Cost: Zip, Zero, Zilch…Free!

Featured in the video:

37 (or so) Tips for Becoming a Better Web Designer

Jay Barry – Period Three & Unmatched Style

Small little nuggets of wisdom that can help anyone become a better designer.
Resources Mentioned:

• http://nuggetsnuggetsnuggets.tumblr.com/

Type that Doesn’t Suck

Jennifer Mcswain – ADCO

A case study of type on the web and beyond.
Starts at ~20:35 – Resources Mentioned:

• Elegant Web Typography (slideshare.net/jeff_croft)
• http://sxswtypography.com
• Cufon (cameronmoll.com)
• F*ck the foundries (diveintomark.org)
• 25 Font Resources (buildinternet.com)
  
• Guide to Web Typography (ilovetypography.com)
• http://www.typetester.org/
• http://www.unmatchedstyle.com
• http://www.patterntap.com
• Twitter Search:typography
• http://www.ilovetypography.com
• http://www.bookcoverarchive.com
  

Quick Website Self-Defense Tips for Search Engine Visibility

Gene Crawford – Period Three & Unmatched Style

A jam packed overview of Search Engine Visibility and Tips on being findable on Google.
Starts at ~45:20 – Resources Mentioned:

• You can check out the slides here at slideshare.com
  

Playing with JQuery

Jason Beaird – Cyberwoven

jQuery is fun! No, really it is! Jason shares some code examples and explain how anyone can pick up jQuery: the write less, do more, JavaScript library.
Starts at ~61:50 – Resources Mentioned:

• publix4pennies.com/weekly
• docs.jquery.com
• learningjquery.com
• jqueryfordesigners.com
• Nettuts: 15 Resources To Get You Started With jQuery From Scratch
• Digital Web: jQuery Crash Course

A friend of mine from Charlotte let me know that “The Queen City” will be hosting a Wordcamp this weekend.  Wordcamps are basically mini-conferences with speakers and events focused on WordPress.  I won’t be able to make the drive this weekend but I figured some of you might be interested.  Here’s the deets:

When: Saturday, November 15th, 2008 – 10am till 4pm

Where: The Charlotte Observer (directions)

How Much: $20 – Includes a  light lunch.

More Details: http://cltwordcamp.wordpress.com/

When: Saturday, October 18th, 2008

Where: Amoco Hall at USC (directions)

How Much: $35 ($25 for Students) – Includes a t-shirt & lunch. Registration deadline is October 15th.

Speakers include: Hal Fulton, Richard Dusenbury, Brian Muller, Jeremy McAnally, Andy Vanasse, Luc Castera, Taylor Redden, Adam Bair and Chris Selmer

More Details: http://scrubyconf.colaruby.org/

Flashpitt is a one-day conference on Friday, October 10, 2008 for multimedia designers, developers, and artists. It’s Pittsburgh’s first major Flash-centric conference. National and international industry leaders will be present to inspire, educate, and challenge the region’s Flash community. Our speaker line up will share inside tips, new technologies and behind the scenes looks to Flashpitt’s attendees.

Learn more at Flashpitt.com