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!
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 […]
by Jared Smith
Comments Off on Accessibility Task Force… here I come!
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 […]