About me

I am a writer with interests in accessibility and typography, among other topics.

• I used to do consulting in Web accessibility. I still do research in other fields of accessibility, chiefly captioning, audio description, subtitling, and dubbing. I do this via the Open & Closed Project, a research project that may someday get funded.

• I was a freelance writer during the 1990s, with about 400 published articles.

• I have written two books thus far:

  1. Building Accessible Websites (2002)
  2. Organizing Our Marvellous Neighbours: How to Feel Good About Canadian English (2008)

  I am working on several more books. One, The Cranky Copyright Book, has been announced.

• I write a personal Weblog and offer thousands of documents on my numerous sites.

Articles about me

• My Toronto: Joe Clark (National Post)
• Ten Questions for Joe Clark, Web Standards Group, Oz
• Digital-Web interview
• Enormous interview at Slashdot: “Ask an Expert About Web Site Accessibility”: Questions ¶ Answers
• Interview by Jonathan Delacour: I ¶ II ¶ III
• Antonio Volpon interviews me for FucinaWeb: English ¶ Italian
• Not recent, but certainly notable: September 2001 Atlantic Monthly profile: “The King of Closed Captions”

Guide to the sites

Right here

joeclark.org (where you are right now) is a professional site, you could say, and is home to hundreds of old articles, plus a number of topics with ongoing updating

Over there

fawny.org is my personal site, including the Redhead Cluster Phenomenon, my personal Weblog, and links to the other sites I work on

Contact

Check my contact page.