Becky Gibson

Location: Massachusetts | United States
Speaking Topics: Ajax | ARIA | web accessibility
Spoken Languages: English

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Senior Technical Staff Member
Web Accessibility Architect
Amateur photographer

Becky focuses on accessibility for the Web especially Web 2.0 and Ajax. She is currently assisting with the development of the Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) specification and implementing accessibility in the user interface components of the Dojo Open Source Toolkit for JavaScript. Becky came to IBM through Lotus where she worked as a developer on several releases of Lotus 1-2-3 as well as Lotus Notes. She has programmed in C, C++, Java and Web technologies.

Previous Presentations: 
Reaching the Entire World: Accessibility and Internationalization with Dojo - The AjaxEperience and AjaxWorld conferences
Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference - 4 years
SXSW, 2008 - Accessible Rich Media panel
Presentation Web Links: 
Several Presentations
SXSW Accessible Rich Media Panel Podcast

Dori Smith

Location: CA | San Francisco Bay Area | USA
Speaking Topics: blogs | blogging | social networking | Internet | women in technology | Web 2.0 | Javascript | CSS | OSX | SEO | Web standards | Dreamweaver | Women in IT | HTML | Technology | community | women in tech | Ajax | Widgets | Mac OS X | DHTML | XHTML | gender | OS X | Web | weblogs | online community | Macintosh
Spoken Languages: English

Photo: 
dori.jpg
Web links / Blogs: 
My site
Backup Brain Weblog
JavaScript & Ajax Book Site
Dreamweaver Book Site
Wise-Women's Web Lists
Twitter
Facebook
LinkedIn

How many hats can one woman wear?
I'm an expert in fields from the Mac (since 1992), Web development (since 1995), programming (since 1977--yes, really), online communities (since 1994), and weblogging (since 1999). I've written and taught about all of these, and more. I've authored or co-authored:
• "Dreamweaver CS6 for Windows & Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide" (Peachpit Press, 2009)
• "JavaScript & Ajax for the Web: Visual QuickStart Guide, 7e" (Peachpit Press, 2009)
• "Ajax Essential Training" video course (Lynda.com, 2008)

Previous Presentations: 
• Macworld Expo, on topics from "Web Design and Delivery" (two-day Power Tools conference), "Webmaster 2003," "Advanced Webmaster Applications," "JavaScript Bootcamp," and "JavaScript Dynamic HTML Wizardry." Led one of the two MacBrainiac challenge teams in 2006.
• Web-related conferences including Voices that Matter, Webstock (New Zealand), SxSW (2002, 2006, 2007, 2008), Web Design World, Web Builder, CNET Builder.com Live!, Script 'Scape Geek Cruise, Perl Whirl Geek Cruise, Web Design '99, Web Design World '99, and JavaScript '98.
• Mac-related conferences including O'Reilly Mac OS X Conferences, NCMUG Mac Computer Expos, and MacMania Geek Cruises.