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The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has published a Group Note of W3C mobileOK Scheme 1.0. W3C's mobileOK is designed to improve the Web experience for users of mobile devices by rewarding content providers that adhere to good practice when delivering content to them. This document describes the mobileOK scheme, which allows content providers to promote their content as being suitable for use on very basic mobile devices.

The document was published jointly with the W3C mobileOK policy that sets forth the rules and conditions for the use of the trademarked string "mobileOK®" and the mobileOK logo to express conformance against the W3C mobileOK Basic 1.0 Recommendation.

Registration Open: Live Training Sessions On Mobile Web Design. The W3C Mobile Web Initiative has opened registration for its first ever live training day. Training will take place Wednesday, 14th October 2009, in Cambridge, UK. Students will attend a full day of lectures and hands on sessions on the W3C Mobile Web Best Practices standard, and more generally on mobile Web design. Read the full details.

The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group and the WAI Education and Outreach Working Group have published an updated Working Draft of Relationship between Mobile Web Best Practices (MWBP) and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).

This draft is complete and is provided as a last opportunity for public review and comment before publication as a W3C Working Group Note. See the announcement email.

For an introduction to the overlap between design goals and guidelines covering accessibility for people with disabilities, and design goals and best practices for mobile devices, see Web Content Accessibility and Mobile Web: Making a Web Site Accessible Both for People with Disabilities and for Mobile Devices.