Archived posts, January 2010
W3C HTML Accessibility Task Force
The W3C HTML Accessibility Task Force will help ensure that HTML 5 provides features to enable Web content to be accessible to people with disabilities.
Telling organisations that their websites are inaccessible
By contacting organisations with inaccessible websites about the problems you encounter, you increase the chances of them fixing their sites. W3C’s WAI has created a document intended to help you do this.
Is SVG support coming to Internet Explorer?
The Senior Program Manager of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Team has announced that Microsoft has joined the W3C’s Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Working Group.
A call for consistent display of alt text across browsers
How browsers display alt text for missing images varies, so it would be nice to see this standardised by specifying the recommended behaviour in HTML 5.
Embedding video files without JavaScript
A method for embedding video files with the HTML 5 video element, QuickTime or Flash that does not require JavaScript.
Unobtrusive JavaScript is not necessarily accessible JavaScript
There is no guarantee that a JavaScript that is unobtrusively implemented is also keyboard and screen reader accessible.
XHTML Media Types Working Group Note updated
The W3C XHTML Media Types Note now includes compatibility guidelines and allows XHTML 1.1 documents to be served as text/html provided that they conform to those guidelines.
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