Design Festival Podcast #8: Web Standards with Derek Featherstone

Hello again and welcome to episode eight of the Design Festival podcast. This week with web standards advocate and champion Derek Featherstone of FurtherAhead​.com and most notably WebStandards​.org. Derek is a teacher, speaker, writer, developer, designer, and strong proponent of accessibility and web standards.

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Episode Summary

Presenters

• Simon Pascal Klein (@klepas)
• Guest: Derek Featherstone (@feather)

Content Rundown

• Show prelude: launch of a new book by SitePoint on mobile web design and development, call for another logo guru to write for Design Festival, and introduction of Derek
• A brief history of Derek and his endevours and brief thoughts on multiple intelligence theory
• WaSP: Web Standards Project
• InterACT: a web standards curriculum by WaSP
• WaSP: Web Standards Sherpa
• Simply Accessible
• Future of web standards — W3C efforts and that of WHATWG
• Speaking gigs, including Derek’s upcoming visit and closing keynote at Edge of The Web in Perth, next month in July
• Derek’s tour of Down Under with his courses in accessibility, HTML5, CSS3, and ARIA
• Derek’s monthly accessibility Q&As
• Recommendations of the week

Recommendations

• Derek: The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell.
• Pascal: Zero Day by Mark Russinovich.

Audio Transcript

En route shortly — stay tuned.