I will be participating in Drupal Camp Toronto (DrupalCampTO), October 15 - 16, 2010. I have proposed the following two sessions and am excited about the opportunity to share my knowledge with the Drupal community in Toronto.

Accessibility in Drupal: what, who, why and how

Most developers and designers have heard of web accessibility, some even know what it means. A great deal of time and effort has gone into making sure that Drupal 7 provides an accessible experience out of the box, and that building accessible sites is easy...

Building custom fields, widgets and formatters for Drupal 7

One of the great conveniences of Drupal 7 is the native integration of the Content Creation Kit (CCK). Named the Field module in Drupal 7, CCK allows site
builders to add additional fields to entities (nodes, comments, user profiles).

There are several field types, widgets (used to enter field values) and formatters (used to display field values) in Drupal 7. Other fields can be found
as contributed modules. But, what happens if you cannot find the field type, widget or formatter you need?