http://www.rnib.org.uk/wacblog Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:59:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Web Access Team have been pretty quiet over the last few months but for a good reason. We've been hard at work on our training offerings in response to feedback from past delegates. We have two new courses to offer, one of which has been requested for many times and ... http://www.rnib.org.uk/wacblog/news/web-accessibility-training-weeks-courses-dates-and-venues-for-2009/ In 2009, the RNIB Web Access Team is changing the way it runs its open training courses. For the benefit of delegates who wish to attend our open courses, but are a significant distance from London, we are going to be running all of our training courses back to back ... http://www.rnib.org.uk/wacblog/news/web-accessibility-training-week-february-2009/ The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) announced today that the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0) have become a full W3C Standard. This is great news and something many in the accessibility world have been waiting for for a long time. Version one of the guidelines were released in 1999, which ... http://www.rnib.org.uk/wacblog/news/wcag-20-becomes-a-w3c-standard/ The Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AUWG) published a Working Draft of the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0 yesterday. The following is taken from the email sent to the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Interest Group: ATAG defines how authoring tools should help Web developers produce Web content that is accessible ... http://www.rnib.org.uk/wacblog/news/call-for-review-authoring-tool-accessibility-guidelines-20-working-draft/ So the big news of this week wasn't the result of the US Election, it was the news that the technical material of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0) has been completed and real world example implementations have been provided for all of the guidelines / success criteria. ... http://www.rnib.org.uk/wacblog/news/wcag-20-moves-to-proposed-recommendation/ September saw a lot of web conferences being held, some of which were attended by members of the Web Access Team. Firstly we had dConstruct 2008, held in Brighton. The title of this year's event was "Designing The Social Web". The day consisted of the following talks: Steven Johnson – The Urban Web Aleks ... http://www.rnib.org.uk/wacblog/conferences/september-2008-conference-round-up-dconstruct-2008/ Most of you won't believe what I'm about to describe, and would never use heading structure in this way. This post isn't for you, it's for the people who believe that it's OK to wrap several links inside a single heading tag, or in fact use one heading to ... http://www.rnib.org.uk/wacblog/articles/hidden-barriers/hidden-barriers-multiple-links-in-headings/ If you haven't heard already, Christian Heilmann from Yahoo! is organising a free accessibility conference / hack day in London this Friday and Saturday (19th and 20th September). Although both days are free, you need to register your details and get a ticket to attend. The hack day on Saturday ... http://www.rnib.org.uk/wacblog/conferences/scripting-enabled-tickets-still-remaining/ John Slatin, a respected member of the web accessibility community and former chair of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group, sadly passed away earlier this year leaving behind him the University of Texas Accessibility Institute. Sadly UT want to close the Accessibility Institute which has been a centre of excellence ... http://www.rnib.org.uk/wacblog/news/petition-to-save-john-slatin%e2%80%99s-accessibility-institute/ Getting geared up for WCAG 2.0? There are just a few places left before we close the bookings for our Transitioning from WCAG 1.0 to WCAG 2.0 training course. Find out what is likely to change, and how you can prepare for the forthcoming renewed web accessibility guidelines. This ... http://www.rnib.org.uk/wacblog/news/upcoming-training-courses/