Wendy Chisholm is a Web developer and human factors engineer who lives in Seattle, and is the co-author of Universal Design for Web Applications. She was a staff person for the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) for 6 years where she focused on Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Chisholm's afternoon keynote for MinneWebCon 2010 emphasizes how good accessibility leads to good universal design, or design that benefits everyone. She also provides some great history about how many of today's most popular technology products and features were originally designed as disability accommodations.
Tags: University, of, Minnesota, UMN, minnewebcon, 2010, disability, access, web, applications, internet, accessibility
