Web Standards, Accessibility & More » Eric Myer http://weboverhauls.com/dennislembree/blog Personal blog of Dennis E. Lembrée, web site professional Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:28:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 About the An Event Apart conference in SF http://weboverhauls.com/dennislembree/blog/2008/08/20/about-the-an-event-apart-conference-in-sf/ http://weboverhauls.com/dennislembree/blog/2008/08/20/about-the-an-event-apart-conference-in-sf/#comments Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:54:25 +0000 Dennis http://checkengineusa.com/dennislembree/blog/2008/08/20/about-the-an-event-apart-conference-in-sf/ I attended the An Event Apart conference in San Francisco (AEASF08) this week, a pretty well known conference “for people who make web sites”, mostly designers and developers. I had the pleasure of speaking to Eric Myer and Derek Featherstone which was way cool. I took the Caltrain from Sunnyvale on the first day and drove all the way up from Cupertino on the second day (found early-bird parking for only $10!). There’s a nice Flickr AEASF08 album which has pictures of people, venue (The Palace Hotel), and the delicious food.

Here are some tidbits from the conference:

  • Empathy for the user is what a designer needs most.
  • The average headings sizes from nine CSS frameworks from H1 to H6 were (in em): 2.33, 1.8, 1.45, 1.25 1.11, 1.05
  • Use visual weight (through size, color, texture, etc) to create a hierarchy of elements on a web page which creates meaning for the user.
  • Modern web design (like jazz music) is about creating frameworks where users (musicians) can improvise and participate.
  • Pixel/em value make more sense when using the 62.5% method (body font size).
  • “Progressive disclosure” is a new term which refers to progressive enhancement used with hiding/showing content.
  • Eric Myer discusses debugging in CSS and his CSS reset file.
  • Web accessibility checklists are only a starting point.
  • Google was lazy in not making Google Map controls keyboard accessible.
  • “Math is easy; design is hard.”
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