[html4all] Introductions or a Who's who of html4all (was Just curious)

[Laura Carlson]

Just in case you missed these previous interviews with some html4all
members over at the web standards group...

Last summer Russ Weakley did a nice interview with Steve. Steve talked
about accessibility, the Web Accessibility toolbar, the Web
Accessibility Tools Consortium, title attributes, AJAX and WCAG2.
http://webstandardsgroup.org/features/steve-faulkner.cfm

In 2005, Patrick discussed photography, CSS, the Zen Garden,
accessibility, SMIL and the WASP accessibility Task Force with Russ:
http://webstandardsgroup.org/features/patrick-lauke.cfm

In 2004, Roger talked about web standards, round corners, development
mistakes, ampersands and more.
http://webstandardsgroup.org/features/roger-johansson.cfm

All good stuff :-)

Best Regards,
Laura

On 9/3/07, Steve Faulkner <sfaulkner at paciellogroup.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> about me,
> i am australian, but now live in the UK
> I have been professionally in web accessibility for the past 6 years.
> i am married with a 2 year old daughter (clara), my wife (blanca) is spanish
> (from the north) people say she looks norwegian.
> I have developed some accessibility testing tools (e.g. web accessibility
> toolbar)
> favourite musician : frank zappa
> I was not intending upon getting caught up in the HTML WG, but have become
> seriously concerned about the apparent lack of understanding in regards to
> accessibility that has been exhibited by some of the key members of the WG.
>
>
> On 02/09/07, Leif Halvard Silli <lhs at malform.no> wrote:
> > Hi - thanks Jane and Laura for starting it off - and for the other
> introductions!
> >
> > This is about me. I'm married. And when I met my wife, she had a b/w
> Macintosh Classic - and a cat (who turned 15 this year - with 1 corner teeth
> and 2 pills a day, he is still going strong). We bought the most multingual
> Word Processor/Text Editor for Mac at that time - Nisus Writer (NW), which
> would introduce me to GREP/RegEx and Unicode/Script problems and a little
> bit macro-programming.  (At times, I still need to fire up that old devil in
> Mac OS Classic - amongst other things I have a HTML Macro package for it
> which I, to this day, think have features that I have not seen anywhere
> else.) Together we run a company that is dealing mainly with the teaching of
> Russian to students with a Scandinavian language background. We develope our
> own study material to a large extent. My wife has written her own «beginners
> book in Russian», which I set in XHTML - (using Prince XML - which has
> allowed me to skip focusing on e.g. LaTeX.).
> >
> > Unfortunately, I am almost entirely autodidact in computerstuff. I am glad
> to see that you, the others in this group, are not! Of I education, I was
> set out to become a theologian from the University of Oslo. That hasn't
> happened yet. I also have a background in ecological farming. Eco-Farming is
> like Acessible HTML: It is more interesting.
> >
> > I find that authoring in HTML is surprisingly difficult ... WYSIWYG-wise.
> Recently I have asked my wife to work in Amaya. But I am somewhat surprised
> to find many problems that I thought NVU was alone about ... (Nesting and
> unnesting - plust the stupid thing of creating multipl BR instead of
> Paragraphs.) There are many tools for creating small snippets and short
> pages. But little that uses HTML as «document format» and with which it is
> possible to author in a relaxed way. Instead it too often becomes like
> working with WordPerfect :-D (nosing into the "mark-up" of WP document.)
> >
> > I am a quite experienced with Freeway (www.softpress.com) - a tool with
> low cred factor, I suppose. But which have many unique (typo)graphic
> features and also a great interest amongst some its users for creating
> standards supporting web pages. But nowadays, I work mostly in text editors.
> >
> > Norwegian is the only language, probably, which has 3 ISO language codes
> to represent itself: NN for the Nynorsk variant. NB for the "competing"
> variant, and NO covering both. In reality it often seems as if NO is used
> for the competing variant (Google do it e.g.) - a "cowpath" that should be
> made the norm! Well, as you understand, I am jealous spokesperson for of
> Nynorsk <http://www.nm.no/english.cfm>. I do not have any background
> especially in Accessible HTML, but like Gregory once said  - when I rephrase
> him a little - accessibility is not an island, it borders on Multilingual
> HTML.
> >
> > Someone at PublicHTML said that writing specifications was just another
> form of programming. If so, then I hope I can have a role at least as bug
> finder.  I feel I have done a lot of beta testing and feature suggesting
> through the times - on open as well as proprietary source programs. (I have
> filed bugs on Opera, Safari, Mozilla, but first and foremost of iCab). I
> have also done localisation of software ( e.g. iCab) and «web applications»
> (e.g. Google).
> >
> > It was reading Anne van Kesteren's blog that took me to PublicHTML. He,
> like Ian, encouraged people to join both WHATwg and publicHTML - something
> which I did - almost simultaneously - in May. Perhaps what I learned from
> reading Anne can be boiled down to  the realisation that XHTML isn't more
> semantic than HTML.
> > --
> > leif halvard silli
> >
> >
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> >
>
>
>
> --
> with regards
>
> Steve Faulkner
> Technical Director - TPG Europe
> Director - Web Accessibility Tools Consortium
>
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Laura L. Carlson