Buzz Archives for March 2007
Amazon.com to enhance its accessibility
I had to pinch myself to check it's not 1 April yet, because Amazon has always been an invalid, nested-table horror that was a poster-child for inaccessible images, but it seems to be true: Amazon.com, the leading online retailer, and the National Federation of the Blind have entered into a cooperation ...
By Bruce Lawson | Filed in Accessibility TF, General
- Spring Fling
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April 5, 2007 sees the Highland Fling in Edinburgh, Scotland – a one-day conference aimed at web developers and businesses with an interest in web standards and accessibility.
By Derek Featherstone | Filed in Education, Web Standards (general)
- A band-aid for browsers
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With tongue firmly in cheek, DOM Scripting Task Force member Dean Edwards says: Just what the world needs, another JavaScript library. That hasn't stopped him from creating Yet Another JavaScript Library Without Documentation™. But this isn't a big full-featured library along the lines of jQuery or YUI. Instead, this works more along ...
By Jeremy Keith | Filed in Browsers, DOM, DOM Scripting TF
- Apollo alphas released
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Today Adobe released the first alpha of their new cross-operating system runtime, codenamed Apollo.
By Aaron Gustafson | Filed in Emerging Technology
- A Shopping List For Standards?
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Molly is heading for Microsoft and wants to know what your hot topics are where standards and Microsoft are concerned.
By Ian Lloyd | Filed in Microsoft, Web Standards (general)
- WaSP needs you
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At the WaSP Annual Meeting at SXSW today, the Web Standards Project announced the WaSP Street Team. Based around the concept of a record company Street Team, the aim is to give you ways to get involved with web standards evangelism in your local area and in the places you ...
By Rachel Andrew | Filed in General, Street Team
- Which is better for the web: single vendor homogeneity, or OSS/Web 2.0-style innovation?
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Brendan Eich, the principal creator of JavaScript and one of the leading developers for the Mozilla project, follows up his SXSW presentation, which illustrates parallels between historical examples of user-community-driven innovation and the current state of affairs in the web useragent space. (Say that fast ten times.) In today’s post ...
By Ben Henick | Filed in Authoring Tools, DOM, Emerging Technology, HTML/XHTML, Microsoft, Web Standards (general)
- WaSP SXSW Annual Meeting Today
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Attend our annual SXSW meeting today! Hear our latest news and updates, ask our member questions, and find out more about a new and interesting project. Panel: WaSP Annual Meeting: Takin' it to the Street Room 8ABC Monday, March 12th 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
By Holly Marie Koltz | Filed in General
- Another way to look at validation
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In the new issue of A List Apart, WaSP Emeritus Ethan Marcotte questions the way we advocate for standards.
By Aaron Gustafson | 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.
Recent Buzz
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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