Industry news

13 December 2007

Call for review – WCAG 2.0

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group invites you to review the second WCAG 2.0 Last Call Working Draft published on 11 December 2007. Get in there before February next year.
http://lists.w3.org/

Podcast: Accessibility in a Web 2.0 world?

Our very own Kath is involved in chatting about Web 2.0.
http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/

A Preview of HTML 5

A host of new semantic tags (woohoo!), although I wouldn’t get too excited, current estimates have work finishing in around ten to fifteen years. I so want to make a joke about it coming out at the same time as WCAG 2, but that would probably be inappropriate..
http://www.alistapart.com/

Accessibility Interoperability Alliance

The official line: “The Accessibility Interoperability Alliance (AIA) brings companies together to collaborate on the design and delivery of solutions to long-standing Accessible Technology/Information Technology (AT/IT) interoperability challenges.” Some pretty big names are already on the members list, including Ai Squared, Dolphin and Microsoft.
http://www.accessinteropalliance.org/

The Global Initiative for Inclusive ICT

They’ve just launched a new site. I hate to go all Accessify on it, but .. graphic text, incorrect alt text .. oh dear!
http://www.g3ict.com/

Internet Explorer 8!

Just as we got used to 7..
http://blogs.msdn.com/

Pearl Crescent Page Saver

A Firefox extension that allows you to capture images of webpages – the whole thing – so you don’t have to stitch images together if you’ve got a webpage that scrolls. Rather handy!
http://pearlcrescent.com/products/pagesaver/

Fake Name Generator

This site creates (with one click) a random, valid user profile including name, address, postcode, and loads of other details. It also sets up a throw-away email account for each profile as well, so you can receive incoming emails for the created profile - great for sites requiring account verification. Could well be useful for all sorts of testing.
http://www.fakenamegenerator.com

RNIB Blog Feed
If you’re not subscribed, you should be!
http://www.rnib.org.uk/wacblog/feed/

A new Roundup feature - Joe’s top tip of the week:

I quite often use the Google site: search term to see approx how many pages are on a given website. E.g. google (no quotes) ‘site:www.abilitynet.org.uk’ and Google will tell you how many results are found, which is a useful indicator of the size of a site (For our site it gives 767). Whilst not a true indicator, as certain pages will not be indexed for a variety of reasons, it is perhaps useful when scoping a site for possible audit.

One of those nice, end of year sites:

Best of CSS Design 2007

If the Zen Garden is all a bit too 2006 for you, here’s a bunch of the best designs from this year. All with accompanying notes from the author saying why they were chosen. And there’s some gorgeous ones in there.
http://www.webdesignerwall.com/

And finally, something to keep in mind for the New Year:

Top tips for achieving work-life balance

7 tips for helping you achieve a good work / life balance. Some interesting ideas in there – I like the ‘use waiting time for fun or health’ one.
http://www.system-concepts.com/

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