Finally, Singapore has its own local Web Standards Group. Right now the group is known as Web Standards Singapore (WSSG). The name may change but it should do for now. The group is not restricted to Singaporeans only. You can…

It is certainly good news to know that Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (WCAG WG) is developing promoting programmers to write JavaScript code that can be made compatible with the goals of Web accessibility. More information can be found…

You might be interested to know how I ended up seeing the need for working with Web Standards in my previous entry - Getting Involve. The search for local Web Standards Enthusiasts is harder than the battle with browser bugs…

Web Essentials 2004 is a two day conference to inspire and motivate web developers, designers and decision makers in the corporate, government, non-government organisation and education sectors to implement web standards and improve business. Incorporating and extending the key aspects…

There was a Sydney WSG meeting on Web Usability Checking for Blind and Vision Impaired, with guest presenters David Woodbridge (Adaptive Technology Consultant) and Robert Spriggs (Services Development Manager - Technology and Training Services). As usual, I can only envy…

There have been lots of excitement with CSS layout but let us not forget good old tables. Tables were originally designed for displaying tabular data and we should not forget that. You can use CSS to do the trick but…

Yet another great presentation by Russ Weakly about The benefits of Web Standards to your visitors, your clients and you! This presentation goes into great detail about Web Standards and touches on the advantages and disadvantages. Obviously, the advantages outweigh…

Common questions about accessibility: * What exactly is accessibility? * Why should I care? * Who cares? * Is it the law? Andy Budd has done up a fantastic presentation - Design for Accessibility - which addresses to all of…

Currently I am trying to conform to Priority One of accessibility guidelines and was working on the Singapore Time zone JavaScript which you can see on the left column just below the calendar. This lead me to the Singapore Standard…

Some uses pixel and some uses em and some uses percentage for their font sizing. Designers may prefer to use pixel so as not to break their design but this is a question of accessibility. I used to use pixel…

I got involved with Web Standards and Accessibility back in January this year. Been reading up and doing research practically everyday till now. The process is no doubt a tedious one especially with the lack of sleep but worth every…