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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....
font is dead, vive le style
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By: Karl Dubost
font is gone, style="" is made global (in HTML 5).
- authoring
- css
- html
- html5
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.
- authoring
- auto
- html
- wai
Is your (mobile) browser ready for the Web?
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By: Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
To help establish better interoperability among browsers, especially on mobile devices, the Mobile Web Test Suites Working Group has created a test combining twelve Web technologies, allowing to visualize at a glance how ready your browser is for the Web.
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 and is now following up with a proposal for a Video on the Web activity.
- html
- video
A validator is not an accessibility evaluation tool?
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By: Michael[tm] Smith
Currently, the most active discussion thread on the HTML working group's public mailing list, public-html, is one regarding the issue of whether in HTML5 the alt attribute should always be required on images. And Henri Sivonen is among the most...
- html