Buzz Archives for June 2008
hAccessibility redux?
Thanks to Sebastian Snopek from the International Liaison Group (WaSP ILG), this post is also available in Polish: Wtórny hAccessibility?. Fanning the fires of the ABBR pattern debate, the developers at BBC Radio Labs announced today that they'll be removing the hCalendar microformat from their programmes listing pages, pending further ...
By Patrick Lauke | Filed in Accessibility
- RNIB Surf Right Toolbar available for IE
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Those clever folks at the Royal National Institute of Blind People have teamed up with the Web Accessibility Tools Consortium and The Paciello Group to produce a toolbar for Internet Explorer that exposes some of its usually buried accessibility options. It's not for developers so much as end-users; the RNIB say The ...
By Bruce Lawson | Filed in Accessibility
- Easy-to-use Flickr and YouTube
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It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking that accessibility is only about the blind people with physical disabilities, and forget about those with cognitive difficulties, or those who are new to the Web. Many pages are very busy and confusing and hence off-putting. Flame-haired DOMscripting lovegod Christian Heillman, ...
By Bruce Lawson | Filed in Accessibility
- Opera 9.5 released
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Just a short buzz: the final version of Opera 9.5 was released today, with a boatload of exciting features. Of particular interest: excellent support for current standards — (X)HTML, XML, XSLT, CSS 2.1, SVG 1.1 partial implementations of new emerging standards — CSS 3, HTML 5, and ARIA More details about the browser's ...
By Patrick Lauke | Filed in Browsers, Outreach
- Spry turns two
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Adobe’s JavaScript frameworks is maturing, but there’s still room for improvement.
By Aaron Gustafson | Filed in Adobe TF*
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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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