Howdy from Austin Texas, where the nonprofit Knowbility pursues its mission.  We support the independence of kids and adults with disabilities by promoting the use and increasing the occurance of accessible information technology. 

I am pretty excited about attending the NetSquared conference with my good friend and key volunteer Glenda Sims - also known as the Good Witch of the Web.  In early April Glenda and I and several of the accessiblity experts that Knowbility has the good fortune to work with spent a week in San Francisco to teach the California Web Accessibility Conference (CalWAC). 

Webmasters from California community colleges, universities and other public institutions attended to learn how and why to meet accessibility mandates required by the federal, state and local government.  Many of these organizations have their own policies as well to insure that all the rich educational and civic information published online is available to everyone - including people with disabilities. 

As we and many others have noted before, when accessibility is considered in the design process of APIs, the result is often an application that is easier for everyone to use.  With so much emerging - including the new Web Content Accessibility Guidelines - WCAG 2.0 it will be a blast to learn from everyone and to explore ways to include accessibility in all these exciting new tools.  Can't wait!  

Sharron Rush