The second version of the Web Content Accessibility Guidlines are in the “final draft” stage and Joe Clark has an opinion about them. Here’s his central point:
“WCAG 2 backtracks on basics of responsible web development that are well accepted by standardistas. WCAG 2 is not enough of an improvement and was not worth the wait.”
Considering that about a year ago I was actively persuing writing a book based on WCAG 2, I’m suddenly glad that the whole idea fell apart.
Thanks SuzyQ
Yes, but did they reshelve the books or leave them on the carts so the “usage” could be counted in the statistics?
via Stephen’s Lighthouse
I’m teaching my Wikis class again so it’s time for another set of links found by my students…
Wikis
Pro-Wiki Articles
Anti- (or at least not Pro-) Wiki Articles
For those of you that recall my experience of burning my own custom CD at a Starbucks in Washington this past March, here’s a follow-up: Starbucks pulls CD-burning stations out of most test stores
How’d you like to be this kid?
“Fourteen-year-old Adrian Rice knew his book was overdue at the library in West Salem. But, what he didn’t expect is that he owed the Hazel Brown Leicht Memorial Library nearly 23-thousand dollars in fines.”
This morning I’m teaching my blogging class. Right now I’m writing this post and my students are writing their first blog post ever. Isn’t that amazing?
Microsoft has made a Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor available for download. “The Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor is a small beta application that you can run on your current Windows XP-based computer to find out if it’s ready for an upgrade to Windows Vista.” Sounds like a good idea if you’re computer is more than a year old.
According to my publisher, “Texas Women’s Univ is using [XHTML & CSS Essentials for Library Web Design] as a text for a summer class.” If anyone knows which class (Neal-Schuman, Inc. just received and order from the TWU bookstore) I’d love to hear it.
As a follow-up to yesterday’s post the folks at LibraryThing have implemented my idea and linked back to the author’s page from the pages of the books we wrote.
Bookmarks
