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New British Standard For Web Accessibility Announced
we’ll actually produce a family of standards, and coverage of Web 2.0 and RIA issues will naturally be key
Publicly Available Specification (PAS) 78 — “Guide to good practice in commissioning accessible websites” — was released in the UK in March 2006. Aimed at non-technical site owners and managers, the document describes the role of standards and user testing within web site development. But, although PAS78 was developed by the British Standards Institute (BSi), it is not a UK standard — although it was seen as the first step in in the creation of a formalised standard.
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A Command of Headings: Usage and Styling
I command thee, headings. Do not defy me as I am the all-powerful web developer. I am your master for I wield a style sheet with which I can make you mine…
Wow! Where did that come from? It sounds so dramatic. And, yet, it so well defines our relationship with heading elements. Of course not everyone will feel this way. I, for one, recall a time when headings where something I avoided using. I mean, really, they’re so big and black and ugly. That was early-on in my foray into the craft, though, when paragraphs — or pseudographs as I like to call them now — were made by placing two break elements between two blocks of text. I didn’t know better. I didn’t realize the power I had at hand via my style sheet. I learned.
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Creative Access
The Creative Access site has a lot to offer visitors as a solid, easily navigable web site. The site is equally effective in all browsers tested, so it looks like a lot of thought went into the testing process. The site looks almost exactly normal with images disabled, since regions with images have been provided with sensible and equivalent background colors.
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Bobby is Gone
If you’ve been following the news, you know IBM bought Watchfire for their web security software. This stuff happens all the time and rarely are we directly affected. This time, though, we will feel the loss. Rather, anyone who used to use the Bobby “WebXact” accessibility evaluation tool will feel the loss. It’s a temporary condition, though, at least according to IBM.
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