Buzz Archives for May 2006
BrowseAloud respond
Many thanks to Martin McKay, Technical Director and one of the founders of Texthelp (developers of BrowseAloud), for responding to my previous post All aboard the PAS 78 gravy train. In a refreshingly sincere and straightforward email Martin reassured me of his personal commitment to the cause of accessibility and literacy. ...
By Patrick Lauke | Filed in Accessibility, Accessibility TF, Action, General
- WCAG review period extended
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The comment period for WCAG 2 has been extended to Thursday, June 22. If you are thinking about giving feedback, I suggest reading the directions for commenters. The ATF will be publishing a broader set of issues shortly, and working to help the WCAG Working Group cover narrower technical issues as ...
By Matt May | Filed in Accessibility, Accessibility TF, Action, General, W3C/Standards Documentation
- On Quality Education
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“What college or university has a good program for Web Development (or Design)?” is a question frequently encountered on mailing lists, in forums, or in conversations with others. Many would like to know the answer.
By Holly Marie Koltz | Filed in Education, Education TF, General
- Educating Web Professionals
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José Trudel instructs students with a focus on emerging technologies, standards, and skills; providing a strong foundation needed for today’s web professional.
By Rob Dickerson | Filed in Education, Education TF, General
- Microsoft Expression Preview Release
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Set to debut in June of 2006 Microsoft has publically released a free trial preview of its newest web authoring tool, Microsoft Expression Web Designer.
By Holly Marie Koltz | Filed in Authoring Tools, General, Microsoft, Web Standards (general)
- Adobe’s Spry Framework for AJAX
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Adobe Labs Spry Framework for AJAX – friendly to use, but poor support for standards.
By Drew McLellan | Filed in Adobe TF, General, Validation
- Yes, We Have the Power
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Chris Wilson of Microsoft swears to live by the standards sword – or end his relationship if Microsoft doesn’t stay true to the standards course.
By Molly E. Holzschlag | Filed in Action, General, Microsoft TF
- All aboard the PAS 78 gravy train
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With the extensive media coverage following its launch, a large number of businesses, education establishments and government agencies with a stake in the UK online market should be aware of PAS 78 - Guide to Good Practice in Commissioning Accessible Websites. Partly due to the cost associated with this document, ...
By Patrick Lauke | Filed in Accessibility, Accessibility TF, General, Legal, Opinion
- Scared of the Dark?
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The impact of web 2.0 and/or AJAX-based web applications – from the point of view of a blind user, not a standardista (for a change).
By Ian Lloyd | Filed in Accessibility
- Even Scoble Says Nay Nay
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No, this isn't a comedy routine with the fabulous John Pinette taking the stage. It's part of an ongoing tragic saga of Web sites that are browser-specific. Nothing new there, as we all know. In this case, they're all Microsoft sites, alas, and even Robert Scoble is just saying no. While ...
By Molly E. Holzschlag | Filed in General, Microsoft
- AJAX, Accessibility & Screen Readers
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James Edwards presents his findings having looked at how AJAX interacts (or fails to) with various screen readers. The results aren’t exactly inspiring.
By Ian Lloyd | Filed in Accessibility
- Lessons that the standardization process can teach us
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Over at Six Apart they’re working to turn Trackback into a standard, and WaSP emeritus Anil Dash shares some of the wisdom he’s gained from the process. Some of the points he makes have bearing on the things we’re trying to accomplish over here at WaSP…
By Ben Henick | Filed in Authoring Tools, Browsers, Opinion, Web Standards (general)
The Web Standards Project is a grassroots coalition fighting for standards which ensure simple, affordable access to web technologies for all.
Recent Buzz
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)