Speakers
Flocking from the four corners of the Earth, renowned experts in the field of web design and accessibility will grace the @media 2005 conference with their presence to share some of their veritable pearls of wisdom.
Jeffrey Zeldman
Jeffrey is an internationally known web designer, speaker and book author, a chief architect of the web standards movement, and the creator of some of the web's best-known brands. His personal site has welcomed over 26 million visitors and is a daily industry read. For nearly a decade, he has helped shape the medium's zeitgeist in the areas of content, design, publishing, and technology.
He is the publisher and creative director of A List Apart, an influential magazine "For People Who Make Websites," and the founder of Happy Cog Studios. He is also the author of two books (including "Designing With Web Standards") and numerous articles for A List Apart, Adobe.com, Creativity Magazine, Digital Web Magazine, Macworld, PDN-Pix, and other publications.
Jeffrey will be presenting the keynote speech on Day One.
Joe Clark
Joe Clark is a Toronto-based journalist, author, and accessibility consultant and has been dubbed "the king of closed captions" by the Atlantic Monthly. His book Building Accessible Websites is a standard reference for this growing topic. Joe contributes to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group and writes and presents widely on accessibility.
Joe will be presenting Accessibility: Simple Facts About a Tricky Subject on Day One and Zoom the Web on Day Two
Douglas Bowman
Douglas is an influential designer whose highly publicized and hugely successful redesigns of sites like Blogger, Wired News, and Adaptive Path have pushed him to the forefront of standards-compliant web design. Bowman's consulting firm, Stopdesign, proves daily by example that beautiful, easily maintainable design can exist alongside simple, standards-compliant code.
Douglas will be presenting The Beauty of CSS on Day One and Tactical Manoeuvres on Day Two
Molly E. Holzschlag
Coined "one of the greatest digerati" and deemed one of the most influential women on the Web, there is little doubt that in the world of Web development, Molly E. Holzschlag is one of the most vibrant people around. With over 30 Web development book titles to her credit, Molly is a Steering Committee member for the Web Standards Project (WaSP). She recently co-authored "The Zen of CSS Design" with Dave Shea, featuring the best of the CSS Zen Garden. Many recognise Molly from her books, public events, feature articles, and popular web site, molly.com.
Molly will be presenting Web Standards Workflow on Day Two
Patrick Griffiths
Hailing from London, Patrick is a front-end web development specialist who, through Vivabit, his user-interface consulting and training company, helps others to achieve the fantastic practical advantages that web standards and accessibility methods have to offer.
He has written extensively on the subject of web standards for a number of publications, including his own web site, HTML Dog and has also written a book, "XHTML & CSS: A Web Standards Approach", the ultimate reference to best-practice user-interface development.
Patrick will be presenting XHTML & CSS: A Web Standards Approach on Day One
Andy Budd
Andy Budd is a well-respected web designer and developer from Brighton, England. He runs a project called SkillSwap which organises free web design training for his local community, and helped set up the Web Standards Awards. Andy also runs a popular blog where he writes about web design and web standards issues. In his spare time Andy indulges in his passion for Travel, Photography and Scuba Diving.
Andy will be presenting Making the Jump to Tableless Design on Day One
Robin Christopherson
After taking a degree in Engineering at Cambridge and working as an IT instructor for the RNIB, Robin joined AbilityNet, the UK's leading experts on all aspects of technology and disability, in 1996 and is now their Web Consultancy Manager.
Managing a team in the auditing and design of web sites to take the needs of disabled people into account, he has a good claim to being one of the country's foremost practitioners in this speciality.
Despite being blind Robin uses a computer very effectively, relying on speech output to access the full range of mainstream software including email and the internet, and knows first-hand of the importance of good practice in web design.
Robin will be presenting Web Accessibility and Disability - A Practical Introduction on Day One
Andy Clarke
Andy Clarke has a background in advertising and started design agency Stuff and Nonsense in 1998. He is also a founding director of Karova. Outside of the studio, Andy writes on his personal site, And All That Malarkey and is also on the Web Standards Awards judging panel. He has written articles for A List Apart and contributed to the CSS Zen Garden.
Andy will be presenting Anatomy of a Mouse on Day Two
Jeremy Keith
Jeremy is a freelance web developer living and working in Brighton & Hove. His online home is called Adactio. With areas of expertise ranging from design to programming, he is committed to building accessible, elegant websites using the troika of web standards: XHTML, CSS and the DOM.
When he's not building websites, Jeremy plays bouzouki in the alt.country band Salter Cane. He is also the creator and curator of one of the web's largest online communities dedicated to Irish traditional music, The Session.
Jeremy will be presenting The Behaviour Layer: Using JavaScript for good, not evil on Day Two
Ian Lloyd
Ian is the man behind the net's leading web accessibility resource, Accessify.com, a member of the Web Standards Project and the author of a number of well received technical articles.
He works full-time for Nationwide Building Society, where he has played an important role in their adoption of accessible design methods, although he recently took a year out from all things web to go travelling (where he actually ended up spending even more time on the web documenting the travels).
Ian will be presenting Accessibility Building Blocks on Day One
