Derek Featherstone

Accessibility × AI Strategist & Builder

Design Festival Podcast #8: Web Standards with Derek Featherstone

Simon Pascal Klein talks with me on SitePoint's Design Festival podcast about the Web Standards Project, InterACT, Web Standards Sherpa, Simply Accessible and the future of web standards. The audio and page are gone; the episode details are preserved here.

This is a preserved record of Episode 8 of the Design Festival podcast, from SitePoint's Design Festival site, recorded in June 2011 with host Simon Pascal Klein. The page is no longer online and the recording (1:23:47) hasn't survived, and no transcript was ever published, so what's preserved here is the episode summary as it was posted.

From the episode page: "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."

Episode summary

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

Content rundown, as posted:

  • 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.

Mirrored for preservation. Originally published June 22, 2011 on Design Festival (designfestival.com) and later carried on SitePoint, hosted by Simon Pascal Klein. The page and the audio are no longer online. Original page, archived: Design Festival — Wayback Machine (also on SitePoint).