{"id":387,"date":"2007-05-20T14:48:40","date_gmt":"2007-05-20T18:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scriniary.smallinfinity.net\/blog\/2007\/05\/20\/biweekly-summary-may-7-14\/"},"modified":"2007-05-20T14:48:40","modified_gmt":"2007-05-20T18:48:40","slug":"biweekly-summary-may-7-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/20\/biweekly-summary-may-7-14\/","title":{"rendered":"STC Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spent much of last week in Minneapolis at the Society for Technical Communication’s<\/a> 54th Annual Conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The most entertaining session I attended was Jennifer Jobst’s talk on screen readers. I’ve read about accessibility but never heard a screen reader in action. We (the audience) had to try to navigate Slashdot’s site, and it was not easy — the content of the site comes after all the links in both sidebars. I want to download the trial version of JAWS and try it out on my sites.<\/p>\n

The most useful sessions for me were Manuel Gordon’s talk on white papers and the session on Unified Modeling Language by Mark Hanigan and Cindy Skawinski.<\/p>\n

Note to self: Download session handouts for stuff you missed here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Tom Johnson interviewed many attendees and speakers for his podcast, Tech Writer Voices<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We also hung out with my boyfriend’s brother and his fiancee, and went to the Science Museum<\/a>, which has an interesting exhibit on the Mississippi River.<\/p>\n

Complaint of the Week:<\/strong>
\nNBC cut away from yesterday’s hockey game after it went to sudden death overtime in favor of the Preakness *an hour before the race started*.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spent much of last week in Minneapolis at the Society for Technical Communication’s 54th Annual Conference. The most entertaining session I attended was Jennifer Jobst’s talk on screen readers. I’ve read about accessibility but never heard a screen reader in … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techwriting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}