For those that are curious - the conference was great. A group of us went down and when we pulled up to the Westin Ohare, we were all wide-eyed at how nice the place was. The group at Gospelcom has always put together top notch conferences but being it’s 10th anniversary, everything had that extra touch put to it.
The first night was just getting settled in and finding our rooms. Paul and I also used the extra time to work on our first presentation - Web Workflow. We both spent quite a bit of time on our other presentations but hadn’t had a chance to sit together and work through what we were going to say.
We ended up working on the presentation right up to time we had to speak. Even while I was getting my mic on, Paul was still tweaking a few slides.
We were so rushed to get started that I didn’t even think about how scared I was or if I knew exactly what to say. About half-way through, we started to have a lot of fun with it and close out the talk with some good question and answer time.
The second presentation was just myself but I wasn’t all that worried now that I had one under my belt.
Overall the event was awesome and I got good marks from attenders - even some that said I should come back next year :-)
Quite a bit more happened but I’m trying to filter all that went on. So check out a few of the presentations along with viewing some of the flickr pool of shots.
posted on September 25, 2005 | 3:08 PM EST
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Like it!
I would have like to hear the explanation of “You can use tables for layout” though.
I still have trouble designing forms that don’t use tables, and I had the impression that was a “no-no”.
I don’t encourage tables for layout what-so-ever but from an accessibility side, your site can still be accessible if you use tables correctly.
First, it the table is used for layout (meaning, non-tabular data) then put a summary=”” (notice there is no space in there) attribute in the table.
As for making a form accessible - that’s a different topic. If you can use labels, you’re off to a great start.
Also, when using tables, make sure your information can make sense linearized.
I’ve found that at the Gospelcom conference people end up sitting in the hall talking through their web site issues in small groups. If you’re in noe of those groups, and you know anything, they look to you for wisdom. And it’s not hard to speak at that level.
Once you start doing “sessions”, it helps to think of them as just bigger versions of the hall conversations. It’s the same people, and they have the same questions and issues, and they just want to know what you have to say about it.
Man - I just did a long form based on a Man in Blue example, but he had the label tags enclosing the input tag.
Is that still right?
The label tag can enclose the input tag but I’m not sure why you would really want to.
Bill Creswell Says:
Like it!
I would have like to hear the explanation of “You can use tables for layout” though.
I still have trouble designing forms that don’t use tables, and I had the impression that was a “no-no”.