Our speaker at this meeting will Nick Lansley, IT Manager at Tesco, introduced by Julie Howell from RNIB.
In his presentation, Nick Lansley explores how Tesco.com became conscious of the need to offer its vision-impaired customers a usable and accessible grocery web site, and shows the path the company has taken from the early days of two separate sites (one for sighted customers and one for visually impaired customers) to today’s brand new integrated service with two “skins”.
Date: Monday 3rd July
Time: 6.30 for 6.45
Venue: Microsoft Research, Cambridge [Map & address]
Registration: Please email cambridge.usability@gmail.com to reserve a place. The event is FREE and you do not need to be a UK UPA member to attend
About the speakers:
Nick Lansley is a founder member and IT New Technologies Specialist at Tesco.com. He has been working in IT systems for 18 years and today looks to see how new technologies will make the Tesco.com service better for customers and simpler for staff.
Julie Howell is the Digital Policy Development Manager at the Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB). She works with policy makers, information architects, manufacturers and software designers, businesses across all sectors and government agencies to ensure the accessibility to disabled people of digital information products and services. Julie was a founder member of the NHS Care Record Development Board (CRDB), working to ensure the accessibility to disabled people for the forthcoming NHS Care Records Service. She is a member of the NHS Direct New Media Committee. Julie is of Technical Author of a new BSI specification for accessible website design, 'Publicly Available Specification 78: Guide to Good Practice in Commissioning Accessible Websites'. She is the current holder of the New Media Age Effectiveness Award for 'The Greatest Individual Contribution to New Media'.