WD06 so far

I made it to Web Dir­ec­tions 06 and have sur­vived two work­shops and three nights of net­work­ing. The con­fer­ence proper starts today.

Jeremy Keith work­shop on DOM Script­ing was good. He have a fairly broad audi­ence so some of what he said was even a little basic for me and a little went over my head. The work­shop also fol­lowed his book, which was great for me because there was a couple of things in the book I did not get. With Jeremy there to explain them I got them straight away. This work­shop took me from some­body who under­stood the con­cepts of DOM script­ing and unob­trus­ive javas­cript to someone who is con­fid­ent in prat­icising DOM script­ing and unob­trus­ive javascript.

Last year Derek Feath­er­stone present­a­tion on access­ible forms, came at exactly the right time for me and changed how I worked with forms. This year, the present­a­tion expan­ded to cover AJAX provide more details and con­vince me of the need to con­sider speech recog­ni­tion users. While it will not have the same dra­matic effect on my work, I wish I knew some of things I learnt yes­ter­day, last year, I now have con­fid­ence to make my forms and other AJAX con­tent accessible.

And the the net­work­ing well …

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