Posted in internationalization on Jan 31st, 2008
So what is character coding and why should you bother?
Well the folk over at the Word Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Internationalization group can answer all that in a nutshell, or short article: Character coding for beginners. Whether you’re a content author, user, or anyone who is unsure about what a character encoding is then this [...]
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Posted in accessibility on Jul 17th, 2007
I’ve just published an article in the RNIB Web Access Centre called Beijing 2008 Part1: accessibility. It gives a snapshot overview of where the Beijing 2008 website is currently at in terms of accessibility and suggests steps for improvement.
This is the first or three articles about the current Beijing 2008 site. Next up in the [...]
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Posted in internationalization on Jul 8th, 2007
A while ago Webaim posted about Great accessibility blog roundup which listed various accessibility blogs that we have all referenced and fed off over the years. Inspired by this I thought I’d start compiling a list of i18n and global design blogs where I go for my daily fix. This is by no means a [...]
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Posted in internationalization on Jun 29th, 2007
This is exciting.
Planet i18n has just been launched by the I18n Core Working Group. It gathers together posts from various blogs that talk about internationalization (i18n). While it is hosted by the W3C Internationalization Activity, the content of the individual entries represent only the opinion of their respective authors and does not reflect the position [...]
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Posted in internationalization on Jun 29th, 2007
It’s been interesting to see over the last couple of years how internationalisation (i18n) has gained weight in the web community. Of course I may be wrong as it’s something that I’ve really only been following for that amount of time however previously if I raised it in conversation I would be met with a [...]
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