Posted in mobile on Jun 5th, 2008
Having cried wolf a few times over the last few years (WAP anyone?) mobile browsing is now packing a serious punch and nowhere more so than in developing countries.
Prohibitive costs for hardware and software, lack of infrastructure, phone lines and support for internet access has meant that surfing the web from desktops in poorer regions [...]
Posted in accessibility, mobile on May 20th, 2008
Opera has long been an advocate of standards based browsing and One Web. In a report published today, State of the Mobile Web: First Quarter 2008, CEO of Opera, Jon S. von Tetzchner, looks at what the current trends are in terms of what we’re browsing and what countries we are browsing from.
Having started [...]
Posted in accessibility, mobile, standards on May 16th, 2008
News from cyclone hit Burma and earthquake struck China has been nothing short of shocking over the last couple of weeks. With both countries facing estimated fatalities of 200,000 and 50,000 respectively and many more injured it has been hard to fathom the devastation and it’s long term impact not least because it has been [...]
Posted in accessibility, mobile on May 2nd, 2008
A little nugget of gold appeared in my RSS feed today. W3C is running a free four week online course: An Introduction to W3C’s Mobile Web Best Practices, May 26 to June 20 2008.
This is great news as since publication of the Mobile Web Best Practices (MWBP) in 2006 the Mobile Web Initiative and [...]
Posted in accessibility, mobile, standards on Apr 30th, 2008
The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) have just announced that WCAG 2.0 is to go into Candidate Recommendation.
This is the final stage before WCAG 2.0 formally takes over from WCAG 1.0 and means two things:
1. Feedback from the community received by the WCAG Working Group has been reviewed and a broad consensus on the technical [...]
