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Ensuring Accessibility Support in HTML5
HTML5 was announced as a W3C Last Call Working Draft on 25 May 2011. The W3C press release invites broad review to determine to what extent HTML5 has met its technical requirements and dependencies. The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) encourages your comments and participation.
Filed by Judy Brewer on May 31, 2011 5:35 AM in Accessibility, HTML, eGov
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Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) moves to Candidate Recommendation (CR)
Today the Protocols and Formats Working
Group (PFWG) published WAI-ARIA
1.0 as a Candidate Recommendation. This is a major milestone in development of
this technology, indicating that it is considered feature complete after
years of development and multiple public consultations. As ARIA enters the Candidate Recommendation phase, the focus shifts from specification
development to implementation testing.
Filed by Michael Cooper on January 18, 2011 5:12 PM in Accessibility, Publications, Technology, W3C・QA News, Web Applications
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New and Improved WCAG 2.0 Techniques
Today W3C WAI published updated Techniques for WCAG 2.0 and Understanding WCAG 2.0, following a public review and comment period. The WCAG Working Group is developing more techniques and would like your help...
Filed by Shawn Henry on October 14, 2010 1:14 PM in Accessibility, Publications, Web Design
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Make Your Presentations Accessible to All
Do you remember a time when people around you broke out in laughter, but you didn't hear the joke? You could be doing a similar thing to your audience — leaving some people out.... Read on to learn how to make presentations, talks, meetings, and training accessible to all of your potential audience, including people with disabilities and others...
Filed by Shawn Henry on June 15, 2010 3:45 PM in Accessibility, Publications, Reference, Technology 101, Tools, W3C Life
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The Mission of W3C
I've now been with W3C for almost three months. My first priority was to meet with the global stakeholders of the organization. I began with W3C membership. Through meetings, phone calls, technical conferences, and informal sessions I've met upwards of...
Filed by Jeff Jaffe on June 1, 2010 2:20 PM in Accessibility, CEO, Technology, W3C・QA News, Web Architecture
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Take a few minutes to encourage web accessibility. You can make a difference.
What do you do when you come across an inaccessible website?. . .
...WAI just published: Contacting Organizations about Inaccessible Websites. It walks through steps, provides lots of tips, and includes sample e-mails...
Filed by Shawn Henry on January 6, 2010 12:00 PM in Accessibility, Opinions & Editorial, Publications
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Share Resources Supporting the Web Accessibility Business Case
W3C WAI today published a collection of statistics, case studies, and articles supporting the business case for web accessibility in Resources for Developing a Web Accessibility Business Case for Your Organization.... Would your organization be willing to share your case study to support the business case for web accessibility?...
Filed by Shawn Henry on December 14, 2009 3:21 PM in Accessibility, Publications
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Discover new ways of thinking about accessibility
As an employee of the W3C Web standards organization, you might think that I would say the most important thing to start with when addressing web accessibility is standards. I don't. I say the first step is learning how people with disabilities use the web. You might be surprised to learn that is the W3C's advice. We've now got it more clearly in writing, in the new document published today by the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI): Involving Users in Web Projects for Better, Easier Accessibility
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Filed by Shawn Henry on December 9, 2009 1:02 PM in Accessibility, Opinions & Editorial, Reference
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W3C Cheatsheet for developers
Yesterday, as part of the W3C Technical Plenary day, I got the opportunity to introduce a new tool that I had been working on over the past few weeks, the W3C Cheatsheet for Web developers. This cheatsheet aims at providing...
Filed by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux on November 5, 2009 9:47 PM in Accessibility, CSS, HTML, Internationalization, Mobile, SVG, Tools, Tutorials
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WCAG 2.0 in your mother tongue
I come from Egypt, live in Austria, work in France, and when I start speaking, some people think I'm American. I speak fluent German and English, but no matter what I do, some expressions and thoughts will always be easier...
Filed by Shadi Abou-Zahra on June 26, 2009 5:04 PM in Accessibility, Internationalization, Opinions & Editorial, Publications
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JavaScript required for basic textual info? TRY AGAIN
Sam says he's Online and Airborne. "Needless to say, this is seriously cool." I'll say! But when I follow the link to details from the service provider, I get:Sorry. You must have JavaScript enabled to view this page. Click the...
Filed by Dan Connolly on January 27, 2009 10:01 PM in Accessibility, HTML, Security, Web Architecture
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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...
Filed by Marie-Claire Forgue 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...
Filed by Shawn Henry 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...
Filed by Shawn Henry 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!
Filed by Shawn Henry 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.
Filed by Karl Dubost 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.
Filed by Karl Dubost 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.
Filed by Karl Dubost 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.
Filed by Karl Dubost 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....
Filed by Shawn Henry 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.
Filed by Karl Dubost 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.
Filed by Philippe Le Hégaret 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?"
Filed by Shawn Henry 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)...
Filed by Shawn Henry on December 12, 2007 2:52 PM in Accessibility, Opinions & Editorial, Publications
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