Buzz Archives for April 2007
Blogging Against Disablism Day
Tomorrow, May 1st, is Blogging Against Disablism Day. Started by a group of individuals in the UK, last year's participation included nearly one hundred and fifty blog responses. From the call for participation: On Tuesday, May 1st—or as near to as you are able—post something on the subject of Disabilism, Ableism, ...
By James Craig | Filed in Accessibility
- hAccessibility
-
By Bruce Lawson and James Craig. (German translation) Microformats are a great idea. They allow the embedding of parsable, semantic data (like contact information and event details) into regular web pages. With the right plug-in, that information can be saved directly to your calendar program or address book. Like Microformats, a ...
By James Craig | Filed in Accessibility, Accessibility TF, Emerging Technology, Opinion, Web Standards (general)
- The Web Standards Documentary Project
-
Aarron Walter, a faculty member of The Art Institute of Atlanta, launches The Web Standards Documentary Project.
By Rob Dickerson | Filed in Education, General, Web Standards (general)
- Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) at ALA
-
WaSP ILG member Martin Kliehm writes about the WAI draft for Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) at A List Apart this week.
By Holly Marie Koltz | Filed in Accessibility, General, W3C/Standards Documentation
- It’s time to get naked again
-
Dustin Diaz has plans for us all – it involves us getting naked. But only for a day and a bit.
- Bringing standards to Microsoft
-
WaSP Emeritus (and former fearless leader) Molly Holzschlag is settling into her new position at Microsoft this week and has begun reporting from the trenches with an overview of what she’ll be doing while she’s there.
By Aaron Gustafson | Filed in Browsers, Microsoft, 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)