Archive for March 7th, 2011

JISC 2011 Conference: Amplified Events

Monday, March 7th, 2011

Brian Kelly and Marieke Guy, UKOLN and Paul Shabajee, ILRT will facilitate a workshop session entitled Amplified Events, Seminars, Conferences, …: What? Why? How? at the JISC 2011 Conference which will be held at the BT Convention Centre, Kings Dock, Liverpool Waterfront, Liverpool on 14-15 March 2011. The session will review a variety of approaches taken at a number of national, international and regional events. All resources from the workshop including an accompanying poster are available from the UKOLN Web site.

BS 8878 and the Holistic Approaches to Web Accessibility

Monday, March 7th, 2011

Brian Kelly gave a talk entitled BS 8878 and the Holistic Approaches to Web Accessibility at a recent JISC CETIS Accessibility SIG meeting held at the BSI Headquarters in London. As described in an accompanying blog post, the recently published BS 8878 Code of Practice on Web Accessibility provides a level of redirect which enables organisations to address the limitation of the WCAG guidelines for Web accessibility.

Note that a video of the talk and access to the slides are also available from the accompanying blog post.