Buzz Archives for February 2004
The benefits of Web Standards to your visitors, your clients, and you
Presentation to the Web Standards Group, Macromedia User Group and Cold Fusion User Group at MXDU2004: Day Zero. [ Via wg ]
By Meryl K. Evans | Filed in Web Standards (general)
- CSS Spec Updates
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Word comes in from Tantek Çelik that the CSS Working Group has been busy. The past few days have seen the publication of the following goodies: CSS 2.1 Candidate Recommendation CSS Print Profile Candidate Recommendation CSS3 Hyperlink Presentation Module first working draft CSS ‘reader’ Media Type first working draft Of particular interest is the new ...
- XForms Validation
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The XForms Institute announced the launch of its new Web service, currently in beta: Free Online XForms Validation. The site also hosts interactive XForms tutorials and content from the O'Reilly book, XForms Essentials authored by Micah Dubinko. The online service validates XForms documents by URL, file upload and text area input ...
By Holly Marie Koltz | Filed in Authoring Tools, Validation, Web Standards (general)
- IE Navigation Just Got Better
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We've had the ability to add navigation options via the link element for accessibility purposes for some time now. But as with so much of what ails, user agent adoption has been slow in coming, especially for Internet Explorer. Users of Mozilla may already be familiar with the Site Navigation Bar, ...
By Molly E. Holzschlag | Filed in Accessibility, Browsers, Usability
- XHTML Modularization Take Two
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Over at the W3C the good folks of the HTML Working Group have released a working draft of Modularization of XHTML 1.0 - Second Edition for community review. Interesting items in the draft include implementation of abstract modules using XML schemas and a number of corrections based on three ...
By Molly E. Holzschlag | Filed in HTML/XHTML
- Passing Validation Muster
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Whew. We passed the XHTML validation test that Keith randomly conducted. He makes a few good points about how hard it is to stay valid. When validating a page, you fix the errors encountered. Who is to say tomorrow it will validate when you slip in your blog entry or ...
By Meryl K. Evans | Filed in Validation
- What is CC/PP and Why Should I Care?
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CC/PP is not a new idea - it's been in development at the W3C for some time now. Yet, many web designers and developers are unaware of what it is, much less how it integrates with XML, XHTML and XSLT in an effort to improve device independence. The W3C ...
By Molly E. Holzschlag | Filed in WaSP Asks the W3C
- why you foxy browser, you
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The Mozilla Foundation has released version 0.8 of Mozilla Firebird, but with a slick new name, “Firefox”. As the browser proceeds toward its much anticipated 1.0 version release, it continues to please many people with its clean lines, fast rendering, and of course - excellent commitment to web standards. Along with ...
By Molly E. Holzschlag | Filed in Browsers
- Sweet as chocolate, impenetrable as a Swiss bank vault
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A recent study of Swiss administration and corporate sites says that out of 68 sites, only eight are fully accessible. In their detailed study, based on the WCAG 1.0 Guidelines, they found the usual stumbling blocks: Complex table layouts don't linearize Javascript navigation doesn't work without Javascript Form elements must be clearly labeled Non-scalable text ...
By Matthias Gutfeldt | Filed in Accessibility
- Accessible UK train timetable
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Great Britain, while famous for many things, is perhaps best known for the efficiency and promptness with which it runs its rail systems. Each day millions of citizens are transported in comfort and style from the doorsteps of their homes, to offices, schools, shopping centres, and any number of other destinations. It's ...
By Dunstan Orchard | Filed in Accessibility
- Two DOM3 Modules Reach Proposed Recommendation Status
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On Thursday the W3C released the DOM Level 3 Core and Load & Save modules as Proposed Recommendations. This is the final stop on the path to being a full-fledged W3C Recommendation. Both modules will be open for implementation feedback until March 5.
By Porter Glendinning | Filed in DOM, W3C/Standards Documentation
- Top businesses ignore accessibility
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Businesses are missing a large audience by failing to make their Web sites accessible (news article no longer available). A Nomensa FTSE report finds that 79 percent of the Web sites did not provide alternate text for images, 56 percent did not have useful alternate text, and 77 percent did ...
By Meryl K. Evans | Filed in Accessibility
- Validator, heal thyself?
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A long-standing bug in the W3C's CSS validator is receiving some high-profile attention: Jeffrey Zeldman, fellow WaSP Douglas Bowman, and web design magazine A List Apart discuss the validator's seeming unwillingness to parse Tantek Çelik's Box Model Hack, a popular and long-standing trick used to hide CSS from less ...
By Ethan Marcotte | Filed in CSS
- CSS: Beyond the Retrofit
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Sure, you've heard the rumors. Heard the kids on the street talking about selectors, inheritance, and structured markup. Want to learn more, but not sure where to start? Well, have no fear — the inimitable Molly Holzschlag is here to help with CSS: Beyond the Retrofit. Taking us ...
By Ethan Marcotte | Filed in CSS
- Orkut no friend to the blind
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Anders Jacobsen points out that Orkut, the latest in a seemingly endless string of social networking clones, fails the most basic accessibility requirement: ALT attributes on images. Specifically, the images that you select to accept or reject someone as your friend. So-and-so added you as a friend. Is So-and-so your friend? [LINK] ...
By Mark Pilgrim | Filed in Accessibility
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Six New Courses Added to the InterACT Curriculum
By Aarron Walter | March 17th, 2010
Today, six more essential courses join the WaSP InterACT curriculum to help schools prepare their students for a career working on the Web.
It was just one year ago that The WaSP released its open curriculum project InterACT designed to help educators roll web standards and industry best practices into their courses. InterACT debuted at SxSWi 2009 with eleven courses created by a host of veteran educators and industry pros. Today, six more essential courses (that’s seventeen courses in total now if you’re counting) join our living curriculum to help schools prepare their students for a career working on the Web. Continue reading Six New Courses Added to the InterACT Curriculum
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