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07 November 2006

News this week:

National Federation of the Blind files Target lawsuit

The Target lawsuit saga continues:
“Bruce Sexton is blind. He would like to shop on Target's website, but says he can't "read" it. He says the site lacks certain coding – found on many other websites – that would activate software to allow blind computer users to hear audio descriptions of what is on Internet pages.”
http://www.usatoday.com/

Top shop launches a new site

For which they are claiming AA compliance
http://www.topshop.com/

The latest round of browsers:

Firefox 2 is released

The blurb is: the award-winning Web browser is now faster, more secure, and fully customizable to your online life.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

IE7 CSS tweak show and tell

“Partly because the beta was carefully rolled out over many months, the release of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 has largely been a non-event, for developers as well as journalists.”
http://www.zeldman.com/

Best practices for the Mobile Web

An article from Berea Street:
“As I have occasionally mentioned (in The freedom of mobile Internet access, for instance), I frequently use my mobile phone to browse the Web. It works really well on modern sites that are accessible, use semantic markup, and separate semantic and presentational markup. It works reasonably well on many other sites, and is a real hassle on most sites.”
http://www.456bereastreet.com/

37 Steps to perfect markup

A useful resource highlighting some of the most commonly asked questions about HTML.
http://www.sitepoint.com/

Web 2.0: A step backwards for accessibility?

Fairly general article (featuring quotes from Robin) discussing in very basic terms the WCAG guidelines, looking at the effect WCAG 2.0 is likely to have, and then some generic information on how to make a site accessible. The Web 2.0 section is limited to two paragraphs which is a bit disappointing given the title for the article.
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/