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)
  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)
  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)
  11. ↑ "Molly Holzschlag (Knowbility staff)", Knowbility
  12. ↑ "Molly E. Holzschlag: Biography", Paper Plus
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