InterACT With Web Standards A Holistic Approach to Web Design
Authors
Ten veteran writers, educators and web professionals from around the world collaborated to create this book.
- Erin Anderson | Minneapolis, MN USA
- Virginia DeBolt | Albuquerque, NM USA
- Derek Featherstone | Ottawa, Canada
- Lars Gunther | Trollhättan, Sweden
- Denise Jacobs | Miami, FL USA
- Leslie Jensen-Inman | Chattanooga, TN USA
- Chris Mills | Oldham, Lancashire UK
- Christopher Schmitt | Austin, TX USA
- Glenda Sims | Austin, TX USA
- Aarron Walter | Athens, GA USA
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Erin Anderson | Minneapolis, MN USA
Erin Anderson is the Director of Creative Services at Brain Traffic, a nationally renowned content strategy agency. Since joining the company in 2005, she’s led the charge on literally hundreds of web content projects for companies all over the world, including Medtronic, MSD, and UnitedHealth Group.
Erin is a recognized expert in web writing best practices, and regularly conducts workshops and presentations around the country. She lives on the mighty Mississippi in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Virginia DeBolt | Albuquerque, NM USA
Virginia DeBolt lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. She is a former educator with an abiding interest in the way web design and web development is taught and learned. She’s written several books, including Mastering Integrated HTML and CSS (Sybex, 2007). Her blog, Web Teacher, is full of tips and observations about the teaching and learning of web design.
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Derek Featherstone | Ottawa, Canada
Derek Featherstone is internationally known as an inspiring speaker, creative web developer, and User Experience practitioner specializing in accessibility. In 2000, he founded Further Ahead, whose team provides accessible web design and development, UX consulting, and training courses on all aspects of web accessibility. They recently relaunched Simply Accessible, a home for their accessibility work.
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Lars Gunther | Trollhättan, Sweden
Lars Gunther is a web developer, computer science teacher and pastor who lives in Trollhättan, Sweden. He is the lead editor of several courses for WaSP InterACT and invited expert to develop web technology related courses for Skolverket, the national agency for education in Sweden. When relaxing from theology or teaching, he usually likes to read about history. He is married to Penilla and is bonus dad to two young adults, Alexander and Oliver.
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Denise Jacobs | Miami, FL USA
Starting with teaching herself HTML in 1996, Denise R. Jacobs has worked with the Web in a range of capacities, from localization project management to instructing web design/development. At present, Denise is a Web Solutions Consultant in Miami, Florida, helping businesses transform their web presence. In addition to writing about the Web, she develops curricula for The Web Standards Project (WaSP) Education Task Force and is an organizing member of Social Media Club South Florida.
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Leslie Jensen-Inman | Chattanooga, TN USA
Leslie Jensen-Inman, assistant professor at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, acts on her passion to improve web education through initiatives such as Teach the Web, the Open Web Education Alliance, the WE Rock Summit and Tour, and InterACT. She is an author, speaker, and creative director who has a unique background in design and business that includes being the graphic designer for a major motion picture and owning a design, marketing, and public relations business.
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Chris Mills | Oldham, Lancashire UK
Chris Mills works for Opera Software (the Viking web browser vendor), evangelising open web standards and Opera technologies, and heading up Opera’s education activities. He publishes regular design and development articles on http://dev.opera.com, and is the creator of the Opera Web Standards Curriculum.
Outside of work, Chris is a metal warrior, playing really fast drums in the mighty Conquest of Steel. He lives in Oldham in the Northwest of England, with Kirsty, Gabriel and Elva.
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Christopher Schmitt | Austin, TX USA
Christopher Schmitt, is the founder of Heat Vision, a small new media publishing and design firm in Austin, Texas. Christopher is a web design specialist who has been working with the Web since 1993.
As a sought-after speaker and trainer, Christopher regularly demonstrates the use and benefits of practical standards-based designs. He is co-Lead of the Adobe Task Force for The Web Standards Project in addition to being a contributing member of its Education Task Force.
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Glenda Sims | Austin, TX USA
Glenda Sims is an accessibility consultant and trainer for Knowbility, a non-profit whose mission is “barrier free IT.” She is also the Web Standards and Accessibility Evangelist for the University of Texas.
She gives back to the Web by volunteering on the Web Standards InterACT Project and the W3C Open Web Education Alliance Incubator Group. Glenda, also known as the goodwitch, is delighted to call Austin, Texas, her home.
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Aarron Walter | Athens, GA USA
Aarron Walter is the author of Building Findable Websites: Web Standards, SEO, and Beyond (New Riders, 2008) and the lead user experience designer for MailChimp. For more than a decade Aarron has been busy building websites for clients, and teaching interactive design courses at colleges and universities in the US. As a member of The Web Standards Project Aarron is the lead of The WaSP InterACT curriculum project.
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25% of author proceeds will be donated to the Open Web Education Alliance.
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