I was honoured to be invited to speak at this year’s Accessibility Scotland conference on Brexit’s implications for web accessibility. The video of the talk has now been posted online, and it is fully captioned.
Sometimes the medium is the message and the backstory is the story. Here is one.
Heather Burns, an internet law expert who helps firms work towards compliance, said that GDPR has drawn a stark line in the sand between certain kinds of businesses. “It’s made …
I’ve set up a crowdfunding page so that I can continue the work I have started, as well as joined, on raising the standard of privacy across open source projects. …
You might think that privacy and accessibility are universally respected concepts and values. They are not.
I’ve had an interesting few years working in open source privacy. I wasn’t expecting this journey would lead to speaking in eight countries, supporting the creation of a core privacy …
Read moreWant to fund my work? Here’s what I’d like, and here’s how you can help.
Yesterday I had the absolute privilege of joining Dries Buytaert (Drupal), DB Hurley (Joomla! and Mautic), Barb Palser (Google), and Tim Lehnen (Drupal Association) for a panel discussion on the future of the open web and open source at Drupal Europe in Darmstadt, Germany.
Read moreTalking about the future of the open web and open source
A couple of months ago my life fell apart in a morning. Being self-employed, I had two figures in the bank, which wasn’t enough to be able to afford a …
Read moreOn speaker travel expenses, or, why enough is enough
If you’re a developer, could you answer three quick questions for me.
The Communications Committee of the House of Lords is currently consulting on the future of internet regulation in the UK in the light of Brexit, the Facebook revelations, fake news, and hate speech.