STC WDC-MB Blog

UserFocus, the area’s premier conference for and by local usability professionals, will be held Friday, September 16 at the Renaissance Washington, DC Hotel. The conference, hosted each year by the DC Chapter of the Usability Professionals’ Association, is a great place to learn about new trends in usability, share experiences with other local practitioners, and [...]

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Carolyn Kelley Klinger’s handout for the "Designing Accessible Documents for Everyone" workshop held on 23 January 2010 is now available. This is an accessible PDF file. Making Word or FrameMaker Files 508 Compliant for PDFs

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The STC Washington, DC Chapter is proud to be one of the sponsors of Accessibility Camp DC. This event will be run like a typical BarCamp, also called an un-conference, in which attendees share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from participants who are the [...]

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The AccessAbility SIG has published information about Getting around at the 2008 conference in Philly. It has illustrated directions from the Market East Platform to the PA Convention Center or the Philadelphia Marriott. For those who are arriving by train at the Amtrak station, there is a note about how to transfer from the Amtrak [...]

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STC member, Sarah Horton, wrote about accessibility and the Web in her book “Access by Design”. There is an excellent book review on the SAP Design Guild site at http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/review_acc_design.asp. The review is a thorough discussion of the book and the whole reason for the book. It might even inspire you when you think about [...]

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STC member, Frank M. Palinkas, has developed a new Fast Track tutorial, which is free to the technical writing, user assistance, accessibility and web design communities. The tutorial was presented at the 2008 WritersUA Annual Conference in March at Portland, Oregon. This tutorial demonstrates how to create the accessible, static Navigation section on the left [...]

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