Standard coordination page

Right now it's just a list of pointers.


The IEEE Internet Best Practices working group is developing a recommended practice on how to form web pages to facilitate access among other objectives.

Internet Practices Standards Study Group

Contact: Jim Isaak (VP for Standards, IEEE Computer Society & Digital Equipment Corp) (j.isaak@computer.org)

Mail from Phil Jenkins on WAI IG announcing an IEEE ballot.


ISO 9241 Evaluator (Ergonomic requirements for office work with visual display terminals). Software ergonomic principles (ISO 9241 part 10-17 /DIN 66234, part 8).

ANSI./HFES 200 has also addressed accessibility issues.

Contact: Michael Pieper Dr. GMD - German National Research Center for Information Technology Science (michael.pieper@gmd.de).


In the context of the WAI TIDE project, an investigation will be undertaken covering the broad international state of the art. In this context, the following documents will be studied:

Contact: Dr Constantine Stephanidis, ICS/FORTH (cs@ics.forth.gr).


NISO (www.niso.org The U.S. National Information Standards Organization), revision to ISO 12083, ISO 1208-3, relation to ICADD SDA (now replaced by HTML4), Association of American Publishers - the AAP.DTD. Relation to SMIL.

Contact: Georges Kersher (kerscher@montana.com) and Mark Hakkinen (hakkinen@dev.prodworks.com)


Braille encoding and Unicode/ISO 10646.

Contact: Al Gilman Chair, WAI-PF (asgilman@access.digex.net)


Daniel Dardailler
Last modified: Mon Jul 6 11:16:20 MET DST 1998