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By kristin - 4/25/2007 - Category: Javascript, accessibilty

By Jordan Casper, www.jkdesign.org, University of Texas at Austin. Most of the session involved creating and analyzing scripts, which can be found at http://www.jkdesign.org/JS/slides/calwac_2006_ex.html

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By kristin - 4/25/2007 - Category: accessibility

By Jim Thatcher. Presentation slides: http://jimthatcher.com/knowbility/testing0906.html. The most important message I got from this presentation is that accessibility testing is a multi-dimensional process. You can’t assume your site is accessible by running it through an automated check. Human testing is also required.

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By kristin - 4/25/2007 - Category: css, accessibility

By Jon Wiley del.icio.us/jonwiley/css - A lot of information is packed into a short amount of time. Below is an outline. Detailed information on this session can be found at www.jonwiley.com/knowbility/classes/advancedcss/index.htm

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By kristin - 4/25/2007

By Paul Reuger. This session covered web development/QA tools (mostly Firefox extensions), streamlining the web production process, and creating a framework/styleguide for web production to support workflow and ensure that QA and accessibility testing are not overlooked.

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By jarcher - 4/25/2007

On Thursday I attended a session named OSS Project Press Relations by Josh Berkus, which covered a lot of excellent advice for interacting with the press if you're trying to get coverage for your open source project. In summary, Josh covers the following issues:

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By harishvc - 4/25/2007

I have posted my notes in my blog. All OSCON entries are preceded with OSCON 2006.

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By jarcher - 4/25/2007

On Wednesday I attended a session named dimdim: The World's Free Web Conference by Prakash Khot and DD Ganguly, which showed off an alpha of a fully open source web conferencing platform that looks very promising. The clients use a combination of html, ajax and flash, and the server runs on standard open source software, with a centralized management admin interface built in.

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By jarcher - 4/25/2007

Tired and weary from the week, I made it to the final day's morning keynotes which were inpsiring, informative, and entertaining.

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