London: Creating Usable and Accessible Web Content (Wednesday, 25 May)
Creating Usable and Accessible Web Content:
What Research From Several Fields Tells Us
Speaker: Janice (Ginny) Redish
Presentation available on-line:
Creating Usable and Accessible Web Content (PDF 1.4 MB)
People come to web sites for the content. So why is so much content on the web poorly organized, poorly written, poorly designed?
As usability specialists, we can draw on both ecological studies and experimental research to help our colleagues and clients understand how to organize, write, and present content on the web so that it works well for all users.
Ginny Redish brings us her expertise as a linguist, her recent research with blind and low-vision users and with older adults, her knowledge of the research literature in several disciplines, and her many years of field studies and usability testing. Come listen, discuss, and work with Ginny in this interactive session in which Ginny uses many examples to illustrate the practical implications of relevant research studies.
RSVP: To reserve your place, email: events@ukupa.org.uk with your name, stating whether you are a UPA member
Date: Wednesday, 25 May
Start Time: 6.30pm for 6.45pm.
End Time: 8:00 followed by drinks and networking
Venue: Oyster, 1 Naoroji Street, London, WC1X 0JD map
Cost: FREE for UPA members; £10 for Non UPA members (£5 for students)
About the speaker:
Janice (Ginny) Redish is President of Redish & Associates, Inc., a usability consultancy in Bethesda, Maryland, USA. Ginny has spent more than 25 years helping colleagues and clients in government and private companies to create usable and useful products (software, hardware, documents, and web sites).
Ginny is co-author of two of the major books on usability techniques:
- A Practical Guide to Usability Testing (with Joseph Dumas, Intellect Ltd., first edition, 1993; revised edition, 1999)
- User and Task Analysis for Interface Design (with JoAnn Hackos, John Wiley & Sons, 1998)
In addition, Ginny serves on the editorial board of three journals and has published numerous papers and book chapters on various aspects of usability, task analysis, accessibility, document design, plain language, and writing for the web.
Ginny is sought after as a speaker and workshop leader; she is a dynamic instructor. She was the keynote speaker at the 2004 UPA conference. Nokia has twice brought Ginny to Finland to give courses on clear writing, design, and usability. She has also keynoted conferences in Norway and Slovenia as well as several times in the United States. She has trained hundreds of content writers, managers, usability specialists, and others throughout the United States, as well as in Canada, India, and Europe.
Ginny has been an active member of the UPA community from the beginning. She was an invited speaker at the first UPA conference in 1992. She served for three years on the UPA Board of Directors and received a President's Award from Mary Beth Rettger for her work on the board.
Ginny's work has brought her several other awards, including the Rigo award from ACM SIGDOC, the Alfred N. Goldsmith award from the IEEE Professional Communication Society, and the status of Fellow from the Society for Technical Communication.
Ginny is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Harvard University.