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Expand Up @@ -38,13 +38,14 @@ After lunch, for the second round of workshops I attended
[How to Run an Accessibility WCAG Audit: Step-by-Step for Beginners][tutorial-wcag].
It was fascinating to see how the guidelines for accessibility are actually
presented, and to learn about common pitfalls for inaccessible websites. One of
the tools (contrast) for checking accessibility was a Chrome plugin, and I
decided to install the plugin and check the pages on my site. I found two pages
with accessibility issues:
the tools for checking accessibility was a Chrome plugin, and I decided to
install the plugin and check the pages on my site. I found two pages with
accessibility issues:

* the JavaScript demo from my undergrad thesis ([see here][thesis-interface])
* the JavaScript demo from my undergrad thesis
([see the demo][thesis-interface])
* my blog post about the syntax highlighting plugin for CommonMark
([see here][blog-syntax-highlight])
([read that blog post][blog-syntax-highlight])

Given that the thesis interface page is meant to represent the version of the
interface that I submitted as part of my thesis, I am not planning to change
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Also during the tutorial day, I had a chance to meet Scott Keck-Warren, who
interviewed me a few weeks back for the PHP Architect's Community Corner
podcast; see that podcast episode [here][podcast-episode].
podcast; [that podcast episode is available online][podcast-episode].

## Friday

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -161,7 +162,7 @@ documentation (and even contributed a few typo fixes) and have been meaning to
add support for PIE to my [CustomCast extension][ext-customcast]. Perhaps
once PHP 8.5 is fully released I'll have a chance to resume work on CustomCast.

After lunch was a second keynote of the day,
After lunch was the second keynote of the day,
[Work Smarter: Code Like a Musician][talk-musician]. It was fascinating to hear
how Cori applied lessons from a music career to writing code. Unfortunately,
I wasn't able to fully focus on this talk, because my own talk was going to be
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -190,7 +191,7 @@ expected to be the most engaging.

The final keynote, [Saving Open Source][talk-saving], was engaging throughout,
at different points funny, somber, optimistic, and relatable. I found the
discussion of lice fatigue especially entertaining - when it comes to posting
discussion of license fatigue especially entertaining - when it comes to posting
code in GitHub without bothering to include a license, I have done that myself
(e.g. for the repository with the code for my website). The discussion of the
[DBAD license][license-dbad] and the [ABRMS license][license-abrms] was
Expand All @@ -215,8 +216,8 @@ of the new features, I was already running through the slides much faster than
I would have liked, and for the last few slides, when I was going to discuss the
biggest new features (expanded constant syntax, the new uri extension, clone()
with, and the pipe operator) I only had enough time for a few sentences on each
of those topics. You can see a copy of the slides for my talk [here][slides],
I had 52 slides to try and get through!
of those topics. You can see a copy of the slides for my talk
[on my site][slides], I had 52 slides to try and get through!

As I noted earlier, two of my talks were accepted for the ConFoo conference in
February; one of them was this talk about PHP 8.5. For ConFoo my understanding
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