Buzz Archives for December 2008
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By Kimberly Blessing | Filed in Authoring Tools, General, Outreach, Validation, Web Standards (general)
- WCAG 2.0 is a W3C Recommendation
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After 9.5 years of work, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 have reached W3C Recommendation status. On behalf of the WaSP Accessibility Task Force, I'd like to welcome WCAG 2 officially into the pantheon of Web standards. I think this tweet by caledoniaman sums up the level of anticipation: WCAG 2.0 and ...
By Matt May | Filed in Accessibility, Accessibility TF, W3C/Standards Documentation, Web Standards (general)
- “Just ask: Integrating accessibility throughout design” available in English, Japanese and Spanish
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Fancy giving your site a hardcore usability test? Then why not involve people with disabilities in your testing. Not sure where to start? Then check out Just Ask: integrating accessibility throughout design. This free online book, written by Shawn Lawton Henry from W3C in her spare time, looks at all you ...
By Henny Swan | Filed in Accessibility, HTML/XHTML, International Liaison Group, Usability
- BSI British Standards invites comments on new draft standard on accessible web content
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BSI British Standards is inviting all interested parties, and in particular marketing professionals and disabled web users, to review and comment on the draft of a new standard on accessible web content. DPC BS 8878 Web accessibility – Building accessible experiences for disabled people – Code of Practice is ...
By Patrick Lauke | Filed in Accessibility, Accessibility TF, Action, General, Legal
The Web Standards Project is a grassroots coalition fighting for standards which ensure simple, affordable access to web technologies for all.
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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
Filed in Curriculum, Education, Education TF | Comments (0)