Just a quick follow up, there will be still be a meeting tomorrow September 27th at 6:00 at Tio’s in Ypsilanti. Sorry for anyone who was inconvenienced by the last cancellation; we promise the meeting will occur tomorrow.

Hope to see you all there!

-Ross

A meetup for Refresh Detroit is scheduled for 6pm, Wednesday, September 27th at Tio’s Mexican Restaurant in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Any local web developer interested in web standards, usability, and accessibility is invited. Come and join the good food and great conversation!

Refresh Detroit founders Dennis Lembrée and Ross Johnson interview WebAIM’s Associate Director Jared Smith for the Web Axe accessibility podcast. Jared Smith is a very knowledgeable and vital member to the accessibility community, and he discusses how he got into web design and web accessibility, WebAIM’s accomplishments and goals, and his views on WCAG 2 and Joe Clark’s response.

Go there now > Web Axe Accessibility Podcast Interviews WebAIM’s Jared Smith

A meetup for Refresh Detroit is scheduled for 6pm, Monday, September 18 at Tio’s Mexican Restaurant in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Any local web developer interested in web standards, usability, and accessibility is invited. Come and join the good food and great conversation!

This meeting has been postponed to Wednesday, September 27th. Same time, same place.

Refresh Detroit: Ann Arbor Designers Announce The Latest Tool To Improve Web Usability, Standards and Accessibility

Seeking to unite web designers throughout Southeast Michigan in an effort to deliver Web usability and standards, Dennis Lembree, founder of CheckEngine USA, and Ross Johnson, founder of 3.7 Designs, have joined forces to launch Refresh Detroit.

YPSILANTI, Mich. (Sept. 4, 2006) — Refresh Detroit is part of the Refreshing Cities movement, a community of Web designers and developers that spans several countries and seeks to upgrade, or “refresh,” the Internet through a common goal of defining and promoting various protocols for design, technology, usability and standards.

By working together to promote various standards in Web design, Refresh Detroit members can make Internet Web sites easier to access and navigate for all users. Specific improvements include increasing the speed of Web sites; increasing the use of Web sites across browsers, platforms, and devices and expanding Web site accessibility to include all users, especially those with disabilities.

“We want to bring together the collective knowledge of Web design from developers throughout the Detroit-Ann Arbor metropolitan area,” Lembree said. “There are many great Web designers in Michigan. We”re looking to make Web design the best it can be, and to share our knowledge with one another and other Refreshing Cities communities across the nation.”

Refresh Detroit seeks to create an environment of “learning through one another,” as Johnson noted.

Refresh Detroit plans to develop and lead conferences, seminars and workshop across metro Detroit. The group also plans to publish and distribute documents outlining standards in Web design.

“By promoting Web standards, we can further ourselves as an industry,” Johnson said.

Refreshing Cities can be found across the globe. Refresh communities are located in most major U.S. cities, including Atlanta, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Detroit, Dallas, and Houston, among others.

CheckEngine USA and 3.7 Designs are Web design companies based in the Ann Arbor area.

For more information about the Refreshing Cities movement, visit www.refresh-detroit.org.

For additional information about Web standards and accessibility, visit www.checkengineusa.com, or www.3point7designs.com.

We are proud to announce that Refresh Detroit member (and founder) CheckEngine USA has won an award from Accessites.org for web site usability and accessibility. The review states:

“[the site] was obviously made by someone who has a firm grasp of accessibility and usability”

NOTE:
The site that won the award is CheckEngine USA, not the Refresh Detroit site.

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