Buzz Archives for May 2003
Agency Requires all Purchases, Accessible
The Department of Commerce United States Patent and Trademark Office(USPTO) posted a press release on May 14, 2003, titled USPTO First Agency To Require All Electronic Information Purchases Be Accessible to the Disabled. Purchases of products and services will have to meet and be certified as meeting Section 508 of the ...
By Holly Marie Koltz | Filed in Accessibility
- Browser Update
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The Web Browser's Unfinished Basement is an article in the E-Commerce Times that should appeal to Buzzblog readers (that's this page, folks). The piece summarizes the recent developments in the browser world, pointing out that 'featuritis' (the nasty condition that has afflicted some browers in the past) is on its ...
- The World Wide List of Web Standards Blogs
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Ed Nixon, along with denizens of the W3C's Web Standards Evangelism list, have put together an outstanding international web standardards & accessibility blog resource (link no longer available).
By Molly E. Holzschlag | Filed in Web Standards (general)
The Web Standards Project is a grassroots coalition fighting for standards which ensure simple, affordable access to web technologies for all.
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Small Business Update
By Aaron Gustafson | August 5th, 2010
A while back I announced WaSP’s new small business outreach effort and, thanks to your help, we’ve been making great progress.
Back in February, I announced that one of WaSP’s new efforts was going to be in the direction of outreach to small businesses. Since that time, things have looked pretty quiet from the outside, but the Small Business Outreach Committee has actually been quite busy gathering materials and putting together our first document which aims to help small business owners evaluate the competencies of those seeking to do web work for them.
Thanks to the efforts of a handful of WaSP members and a cadre of other web professionals, we’re making great progress. We’ve just wrapped up the material organization phase and are beginning to work on drafting the document, which we hope to have out before the end of the year. We’re also in the process of putting together a website to house “living” versions of the materials we produce and assist with the promotion and distribution of this document and any others we generate in the future.
We’ll post further announcements on this project as we get closer to the launch date.
Filed in Education, Outreach, Small Business Outreach | Comments (0)