Buzz Archives for April 2008
WCAG 2 now “candidate recommendation”
The W3C announced today that WCAG2 is now a candidate recommendation and is likely to be "live" by the end of the year. The W3C says Candidate Recommendation means that we think the technical content is stable and we want developers and designers to start using WCAG 2.0, to test it out ...
By Bruce Lawson | Filed in Accessibility, Outreach, W3C/Standards Documentation, Web Standards (general)
- This is your mobile device on Acid
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The W3C's Mobile Web Test Suites Working Group have just announced a new suite of tests for mobile devices. In the spirit of the Acid tests, the test results are returned in an easily grokable visual manner—the green squares are desirable, the red squares mean a feature isn't yet supported. The ...
By Jeremy Keith | Filed in General, Mobile, Outreach, Web Standards (general)
- Showing Off My <body> and Loving It
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I’m so tired of people half-assing it on Casual Day, but Naked Day? Now you have my full attention
By Christopher Schmitt | Filed in Education, General, HTML/XHTML, Outreach, Training, Web Standards (general)
- Acid3 Passed in 23 Days!
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On March 3, the Web Standards Project launched the Acid3 Browser Test. On March 26, two browser teams reported that their builds passed.
By Kimberly Blessing | Filed in Acid3, Browsers
- New Initiative in Hyper-Localized Social Tagging
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From marking books to tagging people, it’s the logical progression.
By Porter Glendinning | Filed in April Fools
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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)