I am a speaker, just ask

A few people have posted links to Meri William’s new project Make me a speaker. I’ve signed up for some mentoring, but mainly because although I’ve spoken a frequently at the various places I’ve been employed I’ve never managed to become a conference speaker.

If you are reading my blog and are looking for someone who knows about Web Accessibility or Semantic Web technology to speak at your event send me an e-mail at tom_croucher@yahoo.com.

I probably have to do some obligatory horn blowing with my credentials, so here goes. I spent several years working on the Open Source Plone Content Management System as part of the UI team. I specialised in Accessibility and spent several years as a participant in good standing of the W3C’s WCAG working group. I was also an invited expert to the ATAG working group. I have contributed as an invited expert to the British Standard BSI/IST 43 on Accessibility in E-learning systems.

I also have some published, cited research on Accessibility in an E-learning environment. This work is part of the cross-over between my Semantic Web and Accessibility interests. I have contributed to the W3C’s Semantic Web Interest Group for a number of years and my dissertation was used as the basis for some work on Composite Inverse Functional Properties by the Semantic Web Best Practices working group.

Finally, my day job is working for Yahoo! Europe as a Web Developer on the European Frontpages (yahoo.co.uk, yahoo.fr, yahoo.de, etc). This means I am based in London, however I am very happy to travel.

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