When a new project is in and ready to hit the ground running, the first instinct for many designers is to dive in. Open Photoshop and start making things pretty. Let me be the first to say… fight the urge. There is a lot that needs to happen before we get to design.
Missed it the first showing or need to see it again, don’t miss Running by Sight : A Visual Artist’s Journey a documentary by our close friend Adam Boozer on Tim Hussey.
A recent article on CNN.com, entitled ‘Web accessibility is no longer an afterthought,’ written by Tom Krazit, included a quote from Nicholas Zakas, the principal front-end developer for Yahoo’s home page: “There are a bunch of things (in web design) that are not features… performance is not a feature, internationalization is not a feature, and accessibility is not a feature.”
In keeping with the theme of Barcamp we thought we would share a few of our slides from our session on “Web Standards & Accessible Web Design”.
