Molly Holzschlag

Molly E. Holzschlag

Holzschlag at @media in 2009
Born (1963-01-25) January 25, 1963
Occupation Lecturer, author, web evangelist

Molly E. Holzschlag (born January 25, 1963[1]) is a US author, lecturer and advocate for the Open Web.[2] She has written or co-authored over 35 books on web design and open standards, including The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web (co-authored with Dave Shea).

She has been named one of San Francisco Webgirls' Top 25 Most Influential Women on the Web[3] and has worked with Microsoft, AOL, eBay and the BBC "promot[ing] standards and best practices to create highly sustainable, maintainable, accessible, interactive and beautiful Web sites".[4]

Campaigning for web standards

Holzschlag is a very active speaker on Open Web technologies, web design and accessibility.[5] She was the 2004–2006 group lead for the Web Standards Project (WaSP),[6] a coalition that campaigned browser makers such as Microsoft, Opera and Netscape to support modern web standards. She would later join Opera as an open and accessible web evangelist.[7]

She currently participates as a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Invited Expert on the CSS Working Group,[8] chairs the CSS Accessibility Community Group[9] and was previously an Invited Expert on the HTML and GEO Working Groups.[10]

Teaching work

Molly currently works for Knowbility, for whom she teaches classes on Open Web technologies such as HTML5 and ARIA, with a strong emphasis on using inclusive design to overcome accessibility barriers.[11] She has also taught webmaster courses for the University of Arizona, University of Phoenix, New School University, and Pima Community College.[12]

Bibliography

References

  1. Holzschlag, Molly E. (January 25, 2005), "Birthday Girl", molly.com (via archive.org), archived from the original on July 18, 2011
  2. Holzschlag, Molly E. (November 26, 2011), "About Molly", molly.com
  3. Amy Moon (1998), "San Francisco Webgrrls in SFGate", The San Francisco Chronicle, archived from the original on September 30, 2011
  4. "Molly E. Holzschlag (author)", Amazon.com
  5. "Molly E. Holzschlag (speaker profile)", Lanyrd.com
  6. "Molly Holzschlag (WaSP member)", The Web Standards Project
  7. Holzschlag, Molly E., "I Am an Opera Singer", molly.com (via archive.org), archived from the original on January 14, 2011
  8. "Members", Cascading Style Sheets working group
  9. "CSS Accessibility Community Group", W3C Community and Business Groups
  10. Holzschlag, Molly E., "About Molly", molly.com (via archive.org), archived from the original on July 18, 2011
  11. "Molly Holzschlag (Knowbility staff)", Knowbility
  12. "Molly E. Holzschlag: Biography", Paper Plus

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