Better late than never I suppose, I’ve been busy with job interviews and the inevitable disappointments of tables-based design and being able to query a database for content triumphing over top-quality semantic markup and CSS generation you see (another story). I brought a couple of friends from work with me for this meeting and after a challenging game of pub cricket (on a train!) we met up at the Bricklayers Arms with Jim before heading to the university campus. Stuart has a more timely review posted at Muffin Research so get the lowdown from there. I just wanted to post a quick thanks to Stuart for organising another great meeting and to the speakers for taking the time to prepare and deliver their presentations. Of the three I think that Mike Davies‘ was the most useful of them for me due to the fact that his presentation revealed the benefits of the accessible redesign of the Legal and General website. I should have brought a manager along, they would have loved the Return on Investment (RoI) figures! If ethics doesn’t capture the business mind then RoI surely should.
As ever, it was great to see everyone again. Mike got his virtual head-rub from me, cool as always to see Jim and Ann and to meet and chat briefly with Niqui. It’s a weird pub is that Bricklayers Arms with two bars on two floors so it was little more than a shared joke with Gez and Mike as we left the top bar to catch our train back to Ipswich.
