Resources
Resources for instructors, Web developers and administrators, updated 2006-10-18.
Links of Interest
- 2006-03-17 DACUM: Teaching Web Standards, in which Bryan poses the question: “If you had an hour to communicate the message of web standards to an audience of your peers who have no developed knowledge of the movement, what would you say to them? What would be the 5 to 10 most important points you would want them to leave with?”
- 2005-11-16 R. Marie Cox describes her experiences on working with a community college advisory committee to promote Web standards.
- 2005-11-16 Beyond New Professionalism
- 2005-11-15 Web Standards and The New Professionalism
- 2005-10-24 Mark Trammell, University of Florida is interviewed by Digital Web Magazine
Library
Accessibility Resources for Higher Ed:
- Developing a Web Accessibility Business Case for Your Organization
Published by the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), which notes: “The Web is an increasingly important resource in many aspects of life: education, employment, government, commerce, health care, recreation, and more. … This page is the first in a series of five pages covering the business case for Web accessibility. The five pages, called a ‘ resource suite,’ are designed to help develop a customized business case for Web accessibility for a specific organization.”
- MSU Web Accessibility
The goal of this site is to help the Michigan State University (MSU) community reach the broadest possible audience with accessible, usable and aesthetically pleasing design. “We loaded it with all kinds of new resources, articles, and tools.”
CMS Resources:
- Geeklog Directory
A handy list for those hunting down a CMS that generates valid mark-up.
General Resources:
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2007-10-18 QA Focus Briefing Documents:
Over 100 documents available from UKOLN based at the University of Bath, providing brief, focussed advice in the following areas:
- Quality Assurance
- Standards
- Digitisation
- Access (Web sites)
- Usability
- Metadata
- Software
- Service Deployment
- Legal, IPR, etc.
- General
- UMD Web Design References
“This site is dedicated to providing knowledge of web design and development. It advocates accessibility, usability, web standards and many related topics…”
Learning Objects:
- Web Accessibility Resource Planner (WARP)—Resources
Short modules (5-40 minutes) in the form of tutorials, exercises and articles for lesson plans and classroom presentation.
Presentations:
- PSU Web Dev. Luncheon—Lost Tags Found: Accessible By Design (Quicktime Video)
Date: March 14, 2006
Format: Quicktime video plus slide show“The XHTML specification is rich with tags for semantics and accessibility. So why are they rarely used? This session will find and demonstrate a few of those long neglected tags.”
- PSU Web Dev. Luncheon—Web Standards Experiences (Quicktime Video)
Date: April 21, 2005
Format: Quicktime video plus slide show“In our continuing exploration of Web standards, this month we present a panel discussion of real experiences in transforming existing sites to standards-compliant design. What are the joys and challenges of the process?”
- PSU Web Dev. Luncheon—First Steps to Web Standards (Quicktime Video)
Date: March 22, 2005
Format: Quicktime video plus slide show“Following last month’s theme “Why Web Standards,” we take the “First Steps to Web Standards” in which is presented a case study in transforming the Web Conference 2005 home page from a table-based design into a standards-compliant design using XHTML and CSS layout. There may be a few surprises, even for the hard-boiled standards designers!”
- PSU Web Dev. Luncheon: Why Use Web Standards? (Quicktime Video)
Date: February 18, 2005
Format: Quicktime video plus slide show“What do you and your users gain by adopting the newest W3C web standards—XHTML, CSS and DOM? How do web standards differ from current web practice? In this first of several presentations about web standards, we’ll examine WHY; following sessions will examine HOW.”
- The Marriage of Presentation and Structure
Web Design World Boston
December 6, 2004
Format: online video (length 1:05:31)WaSP members “Ethan Marcotte and Molly Holzschlag reveal the proper way to marry presentation and structure to create more compelling CSS designs.”
- Implementing Web Standards Across The Institution – Trials And Tribulations Of A Redesign
Patrick H. Lauke, University of Salford
July 28, 2004
Format: HTML and MS PowerPointA 1-1/2 hour workshop.
Tutorials:
- Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility with Firefox
Patrick H. Lauke outlines how Mozilla Firefox can be used in conjunction with the Web Developer Toolbar to carry out a preliminary accessibility review.
Web Style Guides and Policies
Institutional documents addressing Web style guides, best practices, and policies.
- Michigan State University (USA)
- Monash University (Australia)
- Pennsylvania State University (USA)
White papers:
Reports on the process of re-designing public sites.
- MACCAWS White Paper and Standards Primer (April 2004)
- Re-Designing the CWRL Web Site: A Look to the Future (June 2004)
Computer Writing and Research Lab, University of Texas at Austin“This paper describes the process of re-designing the CWRL web site and considers implications for the future.”
- Authentic Wisdom: Jonathan Linczak (September 20, 2004)
“Okay, let’s dive right in and examine the process we went through to raise Hiram.edu to the level it’s at today.”
Tools
- W3C QA – Logvalidator
“Log Validator is a web server log analysis tool with focus on the quality of Web documents. Thanks to a modular, extensible design, the Log Validator can help Web authors find the most popular content on their web site that matches a particular criteria.
“The Log Validator was first written with Validation (HTML, etc.) in mind : it can thus help web content managers find and fix the most frequently accessed invalid documents on their Web site, acting as a comprehensive, step-by-step validation tool.”
The Web Standards Project is a grassroots coalition fighting for standards which ensure simple, affordable access to web technologies for all.