Buzz Archives for July 2008
Announcing the WaSP Curriculum Framework
Since March 2008, the WaSP Education Task Force has begun working on the WaSP Curriculum Framework, a collection of tools aiming to identify skill sets and competencies that aspiring Web professionals need to acquire to prepare them for their chosen careers, as well as resources that will help both educators and students.
By Steph Troeth | Filed in Curriculum, Education, Education TF, General, Outreach, Web Standards (general)
- 2008 survey of people who make websites
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In case you haven't seen it, please invest ten minutes of your time to complete the 2008 A List Apart survey so that we can build a snapshot of our industry.
By Bruce Lawson | Filed in Web Standards (general)
- Curriculum Survey Results
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The Web Standards Project Education Task Force release the results of the 2007 Curriculum Survey.
By Rob Dickerson | Filed in Action, Curriculum, Education, Education TF, Outreach, Web Standards (general)
- Acid 2 Test Back to Normal
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The Acid 2 test hosted here on the WaSP site was broken but is now fixed.
By Derek Featherstone | Filed in Acid2, Browsers, Bugs
- British Standard for accessibility
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The British Standards Institution (BSI) has invited two members of the WaSP, Bruce Lawson and Patrick Lauke, to join the drafting committee for the first British Standard for Web Accessiblity. Two years ago, the BSI was sponsored by the Disability Rights Commission to write a Publicly Available Specification ...
By Bruce Lawson | Filed in Accessibility, Accessibility TF
- Opera Web Standards Curriculum
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Chris Mills of Opera Software ASA announced today the release of the Opera Web Standards Curriculum. The initial 23 of 50 proposed articles are published and available.
By Rob Dickerson | Filed in CSS, Curriculum, Education, HTML/XHTML, Outreach, 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)