Recently my Mum came back from San Francisco after visiting a W3C conference on web usability (I am very envious). Of course she came away with lots of free goodies which I thought I would share with you.

This stylish canvas over the shoulder saddle bag in a fetching #00F (blue), also has a funky W3C stencil on it.

But the really clever part is that after a quick bit of unzipping, and some overly dramatic music:

It turns in to a snazzy sports bag. It also folds up much more easily than it looks by reversing the unzipping process.

Cool huh? I thought you would agree. It's a great piece of engineering, it's just a shame it's so ugly.

Another thing my Mum got was this classy W3C phone ring (not sure what it's exact name is). I think the idea is that you hook it to the corner of your phone and that makes it easier to find in your handbag or pocket.

The underside I think looks nice, but the mobile accessibility logo is an ugly thing. I'm starting to think that maybe the W3C don't really know how to do graphic design -- which is very worrying. It also looks a bit like a sperm.

My Mum also got a cool selection of different accessible business cards from different people in the industry including Microsoft and W3C, some of which had QR codes on them, and some of which had Braille on them, and some of which had both. I'm not too sure how well the QR codes work with Braille all over it, but I couldn't test it at the time. Of course I can't show you these because they have private information on them, but trust me when I say they look cool.

Finally there is this handy guide which of course everyone will want this Christmas.

It's a list of useful things to remember when designing an accessible website.

Not the most exciting list of goodies ever, but I thought the bag was clever. I really have to get myself to one of these conferences sometime.

* All things emphasised were written ironically.