{"id":68,"date":"2009-03-24T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/?p=68"},"modified":"2018-09-06T13:58:50","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T12:58:50","slug":"ada-lovelace-day-profile-julie-howell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/ada-lovelace-day-profile-julie-howell\/","title":{"rendered":"Ada Lovelace Day Profile: Julie Howell"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Julie When I signed up to write a blog post about a woman in technology whom I admire<\/a>,\u00a0I knew straight away it would be Julie Howell. Born in Hampshire, UK in 1971, Julie was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) at the age of 19. Her first impact on the internet was described in Louise Proddow’s book ‘Heroes.com: the names and faces behind the dot com era’, (2000) lauding Julie for creating and developing an award-winning online social network of people with multiple sclerosis – Jooly’s Joint<\/a>. Founded in 1995, membership of Jooly’s Joint now exceeds 20,000 world wide, and was named ‘Best Online Community’ at the New Statesman New Media Awards<\/a> (2000) and ‘The Mirror Readers’<\/a> Choice’ at the Yell UK Web Awards (2000).
\nJulie Howell is currently Director of Accessibility at digital design agency Fortune Cookie<\/a>. Before this she was Digital Policy Manager at RNIB<\/a>.
\nJulie has spent much of the last decade working with businesses and government agencies to ensure the usability by disabled people of digital information services – probably the most vocal and effective champion of Web Accessibility in the UK. She is Technical Author of BSi’s specification for accessible web design, ‘PAS 78<\/a>‘\u00a0and Chair of BSi’s Web Accessibility Technical Committee, that will\u00a0hopefully soon produce a British Standard for Web Accessibility. I am\u00a0not, of course, the first to applaud her work. Julie held the New Media Age\u00a0<\/a>Effectiveness Award for ‘The Greatest Individual Contribution to New\u00a0Media 2005\/6’ and in 2007, Julie received ‘The Special Lifetime\u00a0Achievement Award’ at the Imperatives Digital Awards<\/a>. Deservedly so!
\nI first met Julie in Preston in 2002 at one of her many seminars on Web Accessibility, and, inspired and enthused by her to the cause,\u00a0immediately made it my own cause, too, and by April 2006 I was pleased to meet her again, as co-chair of a meeting of the Manchester Digital Accessibility Working Group\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>to which we had invited her as part of her tour promoting PAS78. She\u00a0has since become one of my Facebook friends where we talk about the much\u00a0more important issue of cats : ) Not only is Julie a woman who has\u00a0contributed a great deal to the world of information technology, she is\u00a0also a very friendly and fun-loving person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I signed up to write a blog post about a woman in technology whom I admire,\u00a0I knew straight away it would be Julie Howell. Born in Hampshire, UK in 1971, Julie was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) at the age of 19. Her first impact on the internet was described in Louise Proddow’s book … Continue reading “Ada Lovelace Day Profile: Julie Howell”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tubthumper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1580,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/1580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}