Today, six more essential courses join the WaSP InterACT curriculum to help schools prepare their students for a career working on the Web.
In an effort to increase adoption of web standards, we're going to try something new.
Google's disclosure of a December cyber attack, originating in China, prompts two major governments to push for the aging browser's demise.
Monday, November 30, 2009 is the 3rd annual Blue Beanie Day. Started by Doug Vos, Blue Beanie Day is a way to show support for web standards and accessibility.
The W3C recently announced an exciting new incubator group - The Open Web Education Alliance (OWEA) - that is certain to have a significant impact on helping web standards and best practices find their way into classrooms around the world.
You’ve heard it’s coming in 2012. Or maybe 2022. It’s certainly not ready yet, but some parts are already in browsers now so for the standards-savvy developers, the future is worth investigating today.
Work is well and truly underway to get WaSP InterAct translated into multiple languages. With an army of over thirty volunteers working in eighteen languages we hope to get localized versions of the Curriculum into schools colleges and universities near you soon.
The editor of the HTML 5 spec, Ian Hickson, calls for input on issues in the spec—typos, contradictions, or simply confusing bits.
Late yesterday, members of the Internet Information Security Consortium (I2SecC) working in conjunction with a cadre of white-hat hackers from around the globe were able to identify the purpose of the Conficker worm, which has been able to infect a large number of unprotected computers.
With a greater focus on standards-compliance, it seems possible that Microsoft's latest browser may redeem itself in the eyes of standards-savvy designers and developers.
We are proud to announce the WaSP InterAct Curriculum.
There are lots of great resources and blogs around the world in many languages that spread the word about web standards.
The W3C's WAI ARIA moves to Last Call Working Draft; appropriately, the Safari 4 Beta is out, featuring improved ARIA support.
When in Indonesia Bruce Lawson, co-lead of the Accessibility Task Force, got the opportunity to interview Widianto Nugroho from Institut Teknologi Bandung.
Something magical happens when you put a group of people that have a shared passion in the same room together.
I’m always on the look out for translations of good resources into multiple languages so it’s great to see the Opera Web Standards Curriculum starting to be translated into Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hungarian, Italian and Russian.
Hat-tip to ATF member Jared Smith:
WebAIM recently conducted a survey of preferences of screen reader users.
You might remember that I published a post called UK government draft browser guidance is daft browser guidance last September, calling out a draft document outlining some UK government browser testing guidelines.
Almost exactly a year ago, I asked all interested web professionals to let the CSS Working Group know what they want from CSS.
The W3C has launched a donation and sponsorship program to support the free validators provided by the organization.