The pod­casts and tran­scripts from the March 30 Web Stan­dards Group meet­ing are now online — Alex Gra­ham from Cad­mium on Acces­si­ble Busi­ness Online and Nick Cowie on <but­ton>: The For­got­ten Element.

I’m really thrilled with how well they turned out, con­sid­er­ing it was our first attempt. The speak­ers were great and while there’s some things we will do dif­fer­ently next time, on the whole the night was a success.

I’ll post some notes on the record­ing and tran­scrib­ing process later, but for now just check out the content:

Acces­si­ble Busi­ness Online — Alex Gra­ham
A brief intro­duc­tion to acces­si­bil­ity and what it means to web devel­op­ers and their clients in Australia

<but­ton>: The For­got­ten Ele­ment — Nick Cowie
The oft-forgotten but­ton ele­ment and its role in acces­si­ble, cross-browser, styl­ish forms. I really urge every­one to check the exam­ples out on this one, most peo­ple I’ve spo­ken to (myself included) either don’t even know the but­ton ele­ment exists, or have no idea how cool it is.

These pod­casts are also avail­able from the WSG site, along with a whole stack of other cool pre­sen­ta­tion record­ings.

We’re try­ing to keep Perth WSG meet­ings to a set for­mat — two shorter pre­sen­ta­tions for each meet­ing, one on a business-related topic and one on a more tech­ni­cal aspect of web stan­dards. There’s another meet­ing planned for mid-May. I will be post­ing details here as soon as the venue is con­firmed so stay tuned for more excit­ing announcements…