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