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Today we turned four years old! Seeing as almost half of small businesses fail by four years, I think we’re doing pretty well! Or averagely!

It’s been a busy four years. We now have four products as well as a huge range of services and online training. My speaking career has exploded, having spoken at six conferences in the US in the last six months and nine conferences in Australia. When I was in the US just last month I also was asked to present to the National Science Foundation and the United Nations! 

AccessibilityOz was at CSUN in San Diego last week. Alison attended a Legal Update by Lainey Feingold and Linda Dardarian in the area of accessibility. In America, the accessibility requirements are hotting up. Lainey mentioned a number of different accessibility complaints and settlements in 2014.

Today the ABC announced that Stella Young died over the weekend. She was a brilliant comedian and a wonderful disability activist. The world will miss her. If you haven’t seen it yet, make sure you watch her TED talk. She was not our inspiration, but she made the world a better place. There will be

I had a great time at Accessing Higher Ground. The weather was beautiful, despite the snow on the ground. In fact, the lake near the Westin in Westminster was frozen around the edges (and people had been walking on it!), but still liquid in the middle! I ran three presentations and one lab for Accessing

New York is definitely the city that never sleeps. For those in Melbourne, think Chadstone during late-night Christmas shopping. All the time. Everywhere. It’s exhausting. I ran my mobile and accessibility session at the Future of Web Design yesterday. It was a great conference and I learnt a lot. You can download my accessible PowerPoint

I have recently run a seminar on prioritising web accessibility during the build of a web site for both DrupalGov and Joomla Day Sydney. You can download the slides for Prioritising web accessibility in the build of a web site from Prezentt. I have highlighted the main issues I covered in this blog post. For more information, have a look at our Services section on Accessibility testing during the web development lifecycle.

You can download my ‘Mobile and accessibility’ presentation and associated links from Prezentt.

I spoke at dev/world on Tuesday about mobile and accessibility. I focused mostly on mobile apps and found some great examples of #ThingsNotToDo.

I’m waiting for my flight back to Melbourne after a very interesting WordCamp Sydney. I met some great people and learnt some interesting things.

You can download my presentation and associated links and documents from Prezentt. Most of the speaker slides are also available on the WordCamp Sydney web site.

We’re likely going to be doing the transcribing, captioning and audio descriptions too, so stay tuned!