Biography: Patrick Lauke
Patrick H. lauke has been Webmaster at the University
of Salford since January 2001, where he is involved in both strategic planning
and hands-on design/development for all University Web sites. He heads a small
central Web team which is directly responsible not only for the development and
maintenance of the University's core Web site, but also for the creation and dissemination
of University-wide guidelines and templates for the various departmental Web authors.
Back in September 2003, Patrick completed the relaunch of the main University of Salford site, pulling it in line with revised corporate identity guidelines and abandoning the kludged, table-based markup with standards-compliant XHTML, CSS and enhanced accessibility features.
Patrick has been active in the areas of web design and development since 1995, but his current position and the requirements of the SENDA legislation have shifted his main interest over the last few years to all aspects of accessibility and inclusive design.
An outspoken accessibility and standards advocate (although he's been called an "evangelist", with only slight negative connotations, by some of his colleagues), Patrick favours a pragmatic hands-on approach to Web accessibility over purely theoretical, high-level discussions.In his rare moments of spare time, he avidly pursues his semi-professional photography ambitions (see his deviantArt gallery), collects old cameras (with a particular emphasis on Canon's F and A manual SLR series), is actively involved in a variety of media, multimedia and design projects (the latest one of which - a 7 hour, 12 screen surround video event called Walking with Angels - was featured in London's exclusive Sketch restaurant/club in April 2003), maintains two personal sites (splintered and photographia) and actively engages in the discourse on accessibility and standards on a variety of online fora, email lists and live events.
Although more comfortable coding than being in front of an audience, Patrick will be doing his bit for the dissemination of good practice by facilitating a workshop at the Institutional Web Management Workshop 2004 and an involvement in the future W3C WAI EO workshops (although this is still in the early stages of planning).
The Accessify Team
- Active Contributors
- Ian Lloyd (site owner, news, tools, articles)
- Patrick Lauke (chief site babysitter, news)
- Previous Contributors (Presumed Abducted By Aliens)
- Nigel Peck (news, articles)
- Ethan Marcotte (news)
- Richard Rutter (news)
- Tim Roberts (news)
- Russ Weakley (news)
- Nicky Danino (news)
- Dennis Kessler (news)
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