Welcome to redQueen

A place to learn about the lives of animals – their behaviours, life histories, reproductive cycles and other quirky facts!

Belated SXSW06 summary

Geeks, alcohol, TexMex and pickles - what more could one want in a conference. So here is a quick SXSW summary from me - finally.

Taking off

Today I leave to go to the US for a month!

First stop Austin. Then Las Vegas, Death Valley, Yosemite National Park, San Francisco, Albuquerque, New York and back to San Francisco once more.

Dinosaur wish list

This week my childhood career aspirations were fulfilled. I was asked to help put together a dinosaur wish list for a new exhibition. Palaeontologist can be crossed of the list!

Developing content for a global audience

Last Friday, I was lucky enough to be in Canberra to hear Richard Ishida talk about internationalization. The presentation was fantastic and really extended my understanding of this area of the Web.

Four things

Amit has kindly “four thinged” me - I feel so privileged…

Page source order

Is page source order important for screen reader users? Roger Hudson, Russ Weakley and I recently completed some work examining this very question. However, we did not want to stop with one line of inquiry while we had screen reader users to work with - so we decided to investigate the usefulness of skip links and structural labels at the same time.