The Web Standards Project
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Acid 2 Test Back to Normal
The Acid 2 test hosted here on the WaSP site was broken but is now fixed. -
British Standard for accessibility
The British Standards Institution (BSI) has invited two members of the WaSP, Bruce Lawson and Patrick Lauke, to join the drafting committee for the first British Standard for Web Accessiblity.Two years ago, the BSI was sponsored by the Disability Rights Commission to write a Publicly Available Specification (PAS) called PAS 78: Guide [...] -
Opera Web Standards Curriculum
Chris Mills of Opera Software ASA announced today the release of the Opera Web Standards Curriculum. The initial 23 of 50 proposed articles are published and available. -
hAccessibility redux?
Thanks to Sebastian Snopek from the International Liaison Group (WaSP ILG), this post is also available in Polish: Wtórny hAccessibility?.Fanning the fires of the ABBR pattern debate, the developers at BBC Radio Labs announced today that they’ll be removing the hCalendar microformat from their programmes listing pages, pending further accessibility testing or the establishment [...] -
RNIB Surf Right Toolbar available for IE
Those clever folks at the Royal National Institute of Blind People have teamed up with the Web Accessibility Tools Consortium and The Paciello Group to produce a toolbar for Internet Explorer that exposes some of its usually buried accessibility options.It’s not for developers so much as end-users; the RNIB sayThe Surf Right Toolbar is really [...] -
Easy-to-use Flickr and YouTube
It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking that accessibility is only about the blind people with physical disabilities, and forget about those with cognitive difficulties, or those who are new to the Web. Many pages are very busy and confusing and hence off-putting.Flame-haired DOMscripting lovegod Christian Heillman, has been experimenting with easy-to-use [...] -
Opera 9.5 released
Just a short buzz: the final version of Opera 9.5 was released today, with a boatload of exciting features. Of particular interest:excellent support for current standards ? (X)HTML, XML, XSLT, CSS 2.1, SVG 1.1partial implementations of new emerging standards ? CSS 3, HTML 5, and ARIAMore details about the browser’s new capabilities and what they [...] -
Spry turns two
Adobe's JavaScript frameworks is maturing, but there's still room for improvement. -
Mozilla Download Day [German Translation]
Mozilla hat sich vorgenommen, ins Guinness Buch der Rekorde zu kommen mit den meisten Software-Downloads in 24 Stunden! Darum wird der 17. Juni 2008 ein besonderer Tag sein: der Download Day.Was wird an diesem Tag so Besonderes sein? Mozilla möchte den Weltrekord aufstellen für die meisten Software-Downloads an einem einzigen Tag. Um teilzunehmen, musst Du [...] -
Mozilla Download Day
Mozilla is on a mission to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours!
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