WordCamp Lancaster
Giving my talk at WordCamp LancasterI’ve lived in the Philly area more than 10 years, and yesterday was my first time visiting Lancaster, because I finally had a good reason to go! I gave a presentation at WordCamp Lancaster. It was the first WordCamp in Lancaster, and had a single track, with web accessibility as the theme:
The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.
— Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of the World Wide Web
There were a bunch of great talks. I especially enjoyed Aaron Jorbin’s and David Kennedy’s:
Wow, really impressive set of 5 lightning talks in a row by @aaronjorbin, with topics selected by the audience #WCLanc
— Michael Toppa (@mtoppa) March 1, 2014
Great web accessibility talk by @DavidAKennedy at #WCLanc. I’m glad he spoke before me – my talk will make a good sequel to his
— Michael Toppa (@mtoppa) March 1, 2014
My talk focused on the language aspects of accessibility, which entailed a discussion of internationalization, localization, and character sets. The title alone was a mouthful: “A11Y? I18N? L10N? UTF8? WTF? Understanding the connections between accessibility, internationalization, localization, and character sets” (slides are below). I managed to make people laugh while discussing character encoding, so I must have done something right.
I learned something about language attributes today at #WPLanc! Very cool. Thanks, @mtoppa!
— Bryan Daniel Peach (@bryanpeach) March 1, 2014
Hey, there's @mtoppa with a mic on his shirt and a podium in front of him. #WPLanc
— Liam Dempsey (@liamdempsey) March 1, 2014
Accessibility on the web with @mtoppa here at #WCLanc pic.twitter.com/jUNrhTtnUf
— Azrael Group (@AzraelGroup) March 1, 2014
I also enjoyed having the opportunity to meet and talk with George Stephanis
(@daljo628S), who organized the WordCamp, Scott González (@scott_gonzalez) the jQuery UI project lead, and catch up with Jason Coleman (@jason_coleman), Liam Dempsey (@liamdempsey), and Eric (@ericandrewlewis).
WordCamp Lancaster also had one of the nicest designs for a WordCamp t-shirt that I’ve seen.
Here are my slides (if you view them on slidehsare.net you can see my notes as well), and hopefully the video will be up on WordPress.tv soon.