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Engaging, surprising, and inspiring, Derek Featherstone is an internationally-known authority on accessibility and web development, a respected technical trainer, and author. Creator of in-depth courses on HTML, CSS, DOM Scripting, and Web 2.0 applications, his approach never fails to champion the cause of web standards and universal accessibility. As founder of Further Ahead, he has been an in-demand consultant to government agencies, educational institutions, and private sector companies since 1999. He is the Group Lead of the influential Web Standards Project and has served on their Accessibility and DOM Scripting Task Forces.

Webvisions Portland
Portland, USA May 22 to 24, 2013
I'll be giving a talk and doing a half day workshop at Webvisions
Interlink Conference
Vancouver, Canada June 5 to 6, 2013
Interlink Conference is a small hand-crafted event created for all types of creative web professionals. Explore the intersection of web design, code, and content during 2 empowering days of curated talks and workshops in Vancouver. (Plus, there’s dodgeball.)

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Past Events

Webvisions Portland
Portland, USA May 22 to 24, 2013
I'll be giving a talk and doing a half day workshop at Webvisions
Mobilism
Amsterdam, NL May 16 to 17, 2013
From the Mobilism site: "The third edition of Mobilism will take place on 16th and 17th of May, 2013, in Amsterdam. Just like for the previous two, we'll invite top speakers from the web and mobile worlds to educate and entertain you about the mobile web." I'm flattered and honoured to be invited to speak there!
UIE Virtual Seminar: Accessibility as a Design Tool
December 13 , 2012
You know that accessibility is important, but somewhere along the way it got an undeserved reputation for being ugly, costly, and driven only by technical-compliance requirements. But proactively incorporating accessibility in his design process is what Derek Featherstone does everyday. And he's going to show you how beautiful, inexpensive, and user-experience-driven accessibility truly is when it's addressed early.
Ready to Inspire
Leiden, Netherlands December 9 to 12, 2012
From the conference web site: "Ready to Inspire is a conference about the craft of web design, type and code. It has workshops, live music, meetups and parties, but above all an exciting lineup of todays craftspeople and mind blowing new faces." Sounds like a blast, and I'm thrilled to be speaking there!
a11yMTL
Montreal, Canada November 23 , 2012
I will be presenting a talk on mobile innovation and accessibility - finding ways to bring the fun and creative approaches from the mobile space into the accessibility world.

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