June 16, 2006
by Jared Smith
This story from CNET News.com:
The 25 European Commission member states and nine accession countries have all signed up for a plan that could make accessibility in e-procurement mandatory.
The 34 countries all signed an agreement in Riga, Latvia, on Wednesday, committing themselves to the “Internet for all” action plan, designed to ensure that the most Web-disadvantaged groups can get online.
With a rollout of web accessibility standards slated for 2010, what type of impact will this really have for increasing awareness and accessibility in the countries affected?
Read the entire article
June 16, 2006
by Jared Smith
Another day, another healthy dose of web standards and development techniques. While those in the audience were clearly suffering the effects of last night’s game/party/drunken melee, today’s presentations were no less relevant or useful than yesterday’s.
Dan Cederholm started the day talking about Bulletproof Web Design. He presented several tricks for ensuring that site designs react correctly to changes in user preferences, such as font sizing, color options, etc. He also presented some cool ways to break out of the box - to make the restricting rectangular boxes that the CSS box model offers look a little less rectangular.
Continue reading @media - Day 2
June 15, 2006
by Jared Smith
It’s day one of @media in beautiful London.
What a fantastic conference! My first thoughts were that the U.S. needs a conference like this that addresses web standards, but focuses only on developers. It’s much bigger than I imagined - geeks-o-plenty!
Continue reading @media - Day 1
June 7, 2006
by Jared Smith
Wow! It’s finally done! It has been about 9 months in the process, but our new site design is finally live. We’ve written an article documenting our process and many of the decisions we’ve made and hope it might be of benefit to you in designing or redesigning your own accessible sites.
If you have comments, recommendations, or find problems with our new site, please leave a comment or contact us.
June 7, 2006
by Jared Smith
If you’re not familiar with the Web Standards Project, you should be. This community driven project, as they say, “fights for standards that reduce the cost and complexity of development while increasing the accessibility and long-term viability of any site published on the Web. We work with browser companies, authoring tool makers, and our peers to deliver the true power of standards to this medium.”
I’m happy to have been admitted onto their Accessibility Task Force, which consists of some of the top experts in the field. Already we are working on several things that will benefit the accessibility community and better promote web accessibility standards. As part of WebAIM’s commitment to provide staff time for these types of projects, I’m looking forward to working with this group even more to promote web standards and make the web a better place.
