Buzz Archives for August 2003
JAWS petition: just say no
There is increasing buzz in web designer circles about a petition to Freedom Scientific to produce a free version of their JAWS screen reader so that web designers can test their own web pages. JAWS is the leading screen reader on the market by a wide margin, and as ...
By Mark Pilgrim | Filed in Accessibility
- Assistive Device Behavior Charts
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Over at Juicy Studio, Gez Lemon is developing a chart that shows the capabilities of various assistive devices commonly used by others to access web content. Included in this list of devices are JAWS for Windows, WindowEyes, IBM Home Page Reader, pwWebSpeak, and EmacSpeak(linux based).Gez announced the launch via his ...
By Holly Marie Koltz | Filed in Accessibility
- Validation just got better
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Much clearer error explanations and a new "fussy parsing" mode are the major new features of the latest W3C Validator Beta release:“The big news in this version is internal support for custom and customizeable error explanations. This means an end to digging all over the net drying to figure out ...
By Matthias Gutfeldt | Filed in Validation
- An Accessibility Presentation For the People
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For the People ("Bringing our world together, one voice at a time.") is a voice chat service that's worth checking out, not least because tomorrow they will be having a presentation by Gary Moulton from Microsoft's accessibility division. You will need to join to take part (and hopefully there's still time to ...
By Ian Lloyd | Filed in Accessibility
- New CSS Working Drafts
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The W3C Working Groups on Wednesday released three new Working Drafts attached to CSS: the CSS3 Presentation Levels Module, meant to aid creation of outlines and slide presentations; the CSS Print Profile, for printing documents on low-cost hardware; and the CSS3 Syntax Module. Developer comments on these ...
By Ben Henick | Filed in W3C/Standards Documentation, CSS
- Aural Pleasure
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In an eloquent radio interview for National Public Radio (NPR), Paul Ford of ftrain describes the evolution of Web standards. What's especially interesting is that Paul uses descriptions of human language as a metaphor for the merging of various Web standards. He carries the metaphor through very well, and as ...
By Molly E. Holzschlag | Filed in Web Standards (general)
- Postcard Tips
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This is an alternative way to get the message out. Matt Robinsion developed the Wish You Were Here pages : a small site designed to advocate modern web design practice, with tips for web designers. Tips are arranged or grouped in categories from Design(Making your site attractive and ...
By Holly Marie Koltz | Filed in Web Standards (general)
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Recent Buzz
W3C Offers Online Training Course: Mobile Best Practices
By Holly Marie Koltz | May 4th, 2008
The W3C Mobile Web Initiative is offering the online training course: An Introduction to W3C’s Mobile Web Best Practices from May 26 - June 20, 2008. The course is free, registration is open, but limited.
This course is aimed at experienced Web developers and designers who are interested in learning to develop content for mobile Web access using W3C’s Mobile Web Best Practices.
Participants will have access to lectures and assignments providing hands-on practical experience with using W3C’s mobile Web Best Practices. They will have direct access to W3C experts on this topic who are the instructors for this course. Participants will also be able to discuss and share experiences with their peers who are faced with the challenges of mobile Web design.
For more information about the course, instructors, topics, and to view a free sample course, visit Online Training Course: An Introduction to W3C’s Mobile Web Best Practices
Thanks also go to Henny Swan for posting an entry about this on her site at Want to Get Your Content Mobile.
Update: Registration is full and now closed.
Filed in W3C/Standards Documentation, Web Standards (general), Training, Design, Mobile, Education, General | Comments (1)