by Jared Smith
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I’m pleased to announce that the National Center on Disability and Access to Education has been appointed to the newly formed Telecommunications and Electronic and Information Technology Advisory Committee. This committee will be reviewing and updating the existing Section 508 and Telecommunications Act accessibility guidelines for telecommunications products and accessibility standards for electronic and information […]
by Jared Smith
The final version of Opera 9 web browser is now available at opera.com. This version is a sleek, minimalist, and fun browser. It has a very polished Macesque look. Unfortunately it may still be inaccessible to some users.
by Jared Smith
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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 […]
by Jared Smith
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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 […]
by Jared Smith
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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!