Archives for Category: Accessibility

Social networks at W3C: foreseeing a 2009 success story!

The W3C social networks workshop is already a blast and it hasn't happened yet! We received a record number (72) of interesting position papers from a wide range of key players. Have a look at the impressive list (papers and...

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Filed on December 23, 2008 4:10 PM in Accessibility, Mobile, Workshops
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A personal reflection on the WCAG 2.0 publication

Today W3C WAI published Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. This is a momentous occasion. Another post links to the official announcements. Here is another perspective, my personal perspective...

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Filed on December 11, 2008 3:11 PM in Accessibility, Publications, Technology, W3C Life, W3C・QA News
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A New Era for Web Accessibility: WCAG 2.0 is Finalized

WCAG 2.0 was published today as a final Web Standard "W3C Recommendation". Check out the official announcement, e-mail, press release, testimonials, and a personal reflection on WCAG. Here are some additional perspectives on a few points...

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Filed on December 11, 2008 2:49 PM in Accessibility, Mobile, Publications, Technology, W3C・QA News
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With real world implementations WCAG 2.0 steps closer to expected December 2008 publication

Today W3C WAI published WCAG 2.0 as a "W3C Proposed Recommendation". This means that the technical material of WCAG 2.0 is complete and it has been used successfully in real websites. Up next: final publication as a Web standard, which we expect in December!

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Filed on November 3, 2008 6:34 PM in Accessibility, Publications, Technology, Technology 101, Video, eGov
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Give me a break! CSS WG meeting

CSS WG is meeting in Cambridge, UK and had an interesting discussion about br element and possible associated CSS properties.

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Filed on August 22, 2008 5:59 AM in Accessibility, CSS, Opinions & Editorial
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The Digital Stakhanovite

Designing a technology that will accomodate our social contexts of the digital Stakhanovite is a big challenge, far to be simple to solve.

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Filed on August 18, 2008 2:18 AM in Accessibility, HTML, Opinions & Editorial, Semantic Web
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Once Upon A Time, Web Standards Curriculum

Once upon a time, we started the Quality Assurance activity at W3C in 2001, one of the objectives was to find a way to improve the materials for communicating with Web developers. In the QA group, Snorre M. Grimsby (Opera) told me that we might find resources for producing educational materials. The discussion became quiet for a while and restarted in June 2006 with David Storey (Opera). As the same time, some people at WASP started a survey for defining requirements for a Web Standards Curriculum.

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Filed on July 10, 2008 5:40 AM in Accessibility, CSS, HTML, Opinions & Editorial, Technology 101, Tutorials
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My Arms Are WAI Too Short

Web Accessibility for Older Users is a report on the needs and the issues that older adults face when using the Web.

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Filed on May 15, 2008 2:50 AM in Accessibility, Opinions & Editorial, Reference
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WCAG 2.0 takes a giant leap forward — Now it's your turn

WCAG 2.0 is going, boldly, where it's never gone before: Today WCAG 2.0 is at "W3C Candidate Recommendation"! Can you feel the Web accessibility world shake? 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 in every-day situations....

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Filed on April 30, 2008 5:35 PM in Accessibility, Opinions & Editorial, Publications
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alt attributes authoring practices

There has been a lot of discussions around alt attributes on HTML WG mailing list. It's always difficult to move forward in such discussions because it seems to be easy when in fact it is rather complicated.

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Filed on April 30, 2008 2:47 AM in Accessibility, HTML, Tools
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Proposed Activity for Video on the Web

W3C organized a workshop on Video on the Web in December 2007 in order to share current experiences and examine the technologies (see report) and is now following up with a proposal for a Video on the Web activity.

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Filed on April 15, 2008 3:29 PM in Accessibility, HTML, HTTP, Semantic Web, Technology, Video, W3C・QA News, Web Architecture
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New resources on making Ajax and related technologies accessible

Today WAI published documents that help Web content developers know how to use WAI-ARIA to develop accessible rich Web applications, including WAI-ARIA Primer and WAI-ARIA Best Practices. We also posted a WAI-ARIA FAQ that answers questions such as "As a Web developer, what should I do with WAI-ARIA now?"

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Filed on February 4, 2008 3:05 PM in Accessibility
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Is WCAG 2.0 almost done?!

A Last Call Working Draft of WCAG 2.0 was just published. This means that the WCAG Working Group has integrated all resolutions from previous comments. Yeah! Now the question is whether this draft of WCAG 2.0 is ready for the community to support moving it on towards becoming a Web standard (W3C Recommendation)...

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Filed on December 12, 2007 2:52 PM in Accessibility, Opinions & Editorial, Publications
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