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Posted in Yay factor!, accessibility on May 11th, 2009
Latest from around the web and also on it that’s caught my eye: Webaxe interview with Gez Lemon – Gez talks about WAI-ARIA, HTML5 and the Web Accessibility Toolbar. Dr Who theme – full length version played on 8 iPhones and two Wii controllers at Open Hack Day London. Complete with a conductor no less. [...]
Posted in standards on Apr 9th, 2009
None of my home or university mates work on the web and I’m often asked “But what is it you actually do?” to which I reply “Web standards” and give as good an explanation I can normally along this lines of “Buildings have to be built to standards right? Well so do websites…”. I normally [...]
Posted in Thoughts, internationalization on Feb 27th, 2009
Opinions are split on whether the battle for web standards in won or not with many claiming that web standards are now no longer the vanguard but mainstream. Awareness is higher, laws exist to reinforce it and there is a good grass roots army of developers out there who will do their darnedest to built [...]
Posted in Thoughts, conferences, standards on Nov 27th, 2008
According to CNET Asia, Google announced ActiveX support for Google Chrome in Korea yesterday. I was particularly disappointed to read this as it reinforces crappy standards support and locking people into using certain browsers and denying choice. Of course I would say this being an Opera employee however with my Opera hat off I can [...]
Posted in accessibility, internationalization, mobile, standards, stuff4sam on Jul 4th, 2008
I’m really excited and honoured to say that together with Lisa Herrod, aka Scenariogirl , I will be taking over leadership of the Web Standards Project (WaSP) International Liaison Group (ILG). We’ll be stepping up to the table to replace Glenda Sims aka Glenda the Goodwitch and Steph Troeth (a tough double act to follow [...]