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Social networks at W3C: foreseeing a 2009 success story!
The W3C social networks workshop is already a blast and it hasn't happened yet! We received a record number (72) of interesting position papers from a wide range of key players. Have a look at the impressive list (papers and...
A personal reflection on the WCAG 2.0 publication
Today W3C WAI published Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. This is a momentous occasion. Another post links to the official announcements. Here is another perspective, my personal perspective...
A New Era for Web Accessibility: WCAG 2.0 is Finalized
WCAG 2.0 was published today as a final Web Standard "W3C Recommendation". Check out the official announcement, e-mail, press release, testimonials, and a personal reflection on WCAG. Here are some additional perspectives on a few points...
With real world implementations WCAG 2.0 steps closer to expected December 2008 publication
Today W3C WAI published WCAG 2.0 as a 'W3C Proposed Recommendation'. This means that the technical material of WCAG 2.0 is complete and it has been used successfully in real websites. Up next: final publication as a Web standard, which we expect in December!
Give me a break! CSS WG meeting
CSS WG is meeting in Cambridge, UK and had an interesting discussion about br element and possible associated CSS properties.
- css
- f2f
- wai-aria
- working-group
The Digital Stakhanovite
Designing a technology that will accomodate our social contexts of the digital Stakhanovite is a big challenge, far to be simple to solve.
- exif
- html
- metadata
- photo
Once Upon A Time, Web Standards Curriculum
Once upon a time, we started the Quality Assurance activity at W3C in 2001, one of the objectives was to find a way to improve the materials for communicating with Web developers. In the QA group, Snorre M. Grimsby (Opera) told me that we might find resources for producing educational materials. The discussion became quiet for a while and restarted in June 2006 with David Storey (Opera). As the same time, some people at WASP started a survey for defining requirements for a Web Standards Curriculum.
- css
- education
- html
- tutorial
- web-standards
My Arms Are WAI Too Short
Web Accessibility for Older Users is a report on the needs and the issues that older adults face when using the Web.
- auto
- reading
- wai
WCAG 2.0 takes a giant leap forward — Now it's your turn
WCAG 2.0 is going, boldly, where it's never gone before: Today WCAG 2.0 is at 'W3C Candidate Recommendation'! Can you feel the Web accessibility world shake? Candidate Recommendation means that we think the technical content is stable and we want developers and designers to start using WCAG 2.0, to test it out in every-day situations....
alt attributes authoring practices
There has been a lot of discussions around alt attributes on HTML WG mailing list. It's always difficult to move forward in such discussions because it seems to be easy when in fact it is rather complicated.
- authoring
- auto
- html
- wai
