In May of 2006, after the release of WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) 2 for public comments, Joe Clark published an article in A List Apart in which he damned the new guidelines to hell. At the same time, he announced the formation of an independent group to review WCAG 1 and author a set of errata (and extensions) to that document. The WCAG Samurai have now released their errata document for public review. They have also invited reviews from […]
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Where’s WCAG 2?
By which I mean, what is currently going on in the world of the next generation of web content accessibility guidelines? It’s been almost a year since I wrote on the feelings against WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) 2 when it was initially bumped to a “Last Call Working Draft” — so it’s worth addressing what’s been happening since then. First of all, WCAG 2 is still in the “Last Call Working Draft” stage, according to the Web Accessibility Initiative. […]
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The idea that the web can be universally accessed is sometimes called universality. It essentially means that information online can be accessed (not necessarily used or understood) via whatever devices or access tool a user has available to them, regardless of bandwidth; older devices; mobile devices; non-visual devices. No element of the online document should depend entirely on a medium: they should make allowances for alternate means of access. In principal, this concept relates very closely to web accessibility. Part […]
Continue reading “What is Web Universality?” »New W3C HTML Working Group…but who cares?
Roger Johansson comments on the establishment of a new HTML (HyperText Markup Language) working group from the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium). The comments on Roger’s remarks indicate a general sense that developers don’t expect a lot from this. The 3 1/2 year marker which is being suggested for the release of the next HTML official recommendation is viewed as optimistic, and the fact that support doesn’t yet exist for large parts of older projects (like CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) […]
Continue reading “New W3C HTML Working Group…but who cares?” »Molly Holzschlag Working with Internet Explorer
As announced on the IEBlog today, web standards guru Molly Holzschlag will be working as a contractor to try and get at IE (Internet Explorer)’s standards and interoperability issues. This is pretty exciting news for web standards: Molly is a very highly qualified advocate of web standards, and with any luck she’ll be able to pound her message through the bureaucratic net at Microsoft. I’m not one of those people who believes that Microsoft actually doesn’t care about web standards, […]
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