Standards.Next is back for a second time focusing on cognition and accessible web design.

When accommodating people with cognitive disabilities it's difficult to know where to start. It's one of the least understood and less documented disabilities on the web, difficult to pin down in guidelines such as WCAG and hard to define in practice. How best can we use graphics, colours and video, where are the barriers and where are the doorways in?

We'll be discussing the above and more with speakers including:

- Antonia Hyde (http://hiantonia.wordpress.com/): a designer and the driver behind Easy YouTube. Antonia has worked with rich media and web apps for people with cognitive disabilities and has a wealth of knowledge on this area.

- David Owens (http://fineartdavid.com/): front-end developer and web standards advocate David will share his findings from carrying out some user testing with people with cognitive disabilities and how this influenced design decisions.

- Jamie Knight (http://www.jkg3.com/): Jamie has first hand knowledge as a web designer himself with autism. He'll be telling us what works and doesn't work and why.

- Ian Pouncey (http://ianpouncey.com/): A developer at Yahoo! working on many areas of accessibility Ian is going to share what he has learnt about how people perceive content, images and text - the foundations of the web.

Want to speak? We have room for another speaker so let me know if interested (henny at iheni dot come), we'd love to have you join us whatever your perspective is.

So come armed with your questions, thoughts and tips. We'll have nibbles on hand and will head to the pub after.

The meetup is the Saturday after Techshare (http://www.rnib.org.uk/techshare) with more details will be posted soon at http://www.standards-next.org.

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