I’ve had a busy summer! First off, my web-accessible Twitter application Accessible Twitter was renamed to Easy Chirp. The name change was done soon before taking a trip home to Michigan. There, I took an overnight trip to Port Huron with my wife; went camping in Port Austin with my dad; my boys and newphews; and attended an excellent Detroit Tigers baseball game.
I wrote an article for DesignFestival.com. Popular Mistakes in Universal Web Design. It was later tweeted by Smashing Magazine (who has nearly half a million followers) which made me quite happy.
My brother visited me here in Northern California, and we took 3 jam-packed day trips to Monterey area, Napa valley, and Highway 1 to San Francisco. My cousin Italo was also in the area and we took a visit at Villa Montalvo in nearby Saratoga.
On my Web Axe podcast and blog, I wrote an analysis of (lack of) keyboard accessibility on Google Plus. I published, although a bit late, Podcast 92 “Frustrated”. I wrote a few other blogs including a listing of web accessibility events for the second half of 2011.
Lastly, and most recently, my wife and I saw Sade in concert (you know, “Smooth Operator”) at the HP Pavilion in San Jose. Great show, but not-so-good concert pictures (but the short video clip is pretty cool).
So if you haven’t heard by now, the W3C released a new 