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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....
Filed by Shawn Henry on April 30, 2008 5:35 PM in Accessibility, Opinions and Editorial, Publications
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font is dead, vive le style
font is gone, style="" is made global (in HTML 5).
Filed by Karl Dubost on April 30, 2008 3:00 AM in CSS, HTML
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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.
Filed by Karl Dubost on April 30, 2008 2:47 AM in Accessibility, HTML, Tools
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Is your (mobile) browser ready for the Web?
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.
Filed by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux on April 16, 2008 6:58 AM in W3C・Resources
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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 (see report) and is now following up with a proposal for a Video on the Web activity.
Filed by Philippe Le Hégaret on April 15, 2008 3:29 PM in Accessibility, HTML, HTTP, Semantic Web, Technology, Video, W3C・Resources, Web Architecture
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A validator is not an accessibility evaluation tool?
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...
Filed by Michael[tm] Smith on April 14, 2008 2:19 AM in HTML
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Unescape HTML Entities in Python
I'm not a real programmer, but here a piece of python code to unescape html entities in an XHTML file and convert them to utf-8.
Filed by Karl Dubost on April 8, 2008 2:21 AM in Bugs Life, Tools, XML
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