The WaSP / Microsoft Task Force was formed in July of 2005 to support Microsoft as the company begins increasing Web standards support in its products including the Microsoft Internet Explorer Web browser, developer tools including Visual Studio and ASP.NET, and designer tools such as Microsoft Expression Web Designer.
The Task Force is a highly […]
Happy Birthday, CSS! The Web Standards Project celebrates the 10th anniversary of the publication of the first Cascading Style Sheets level 1 recommendation, which was published on December 17, 1996. (The final recommendation came in 1999.) We bow deeply and graciously to Bert Bos and HĂĄkon Wium Lie, the co-authors of that original document […]
Her chapter in Friends of Ed’s Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance, Understanding Web Accessibility is an excellent practical introduction into the barriers disabled people face when using the web. One point in particular stood out for me: Allowing text to increase in size is not enough, sometimes content can be more accessible when […]
Opera Chief Technology Officer and co-inventor of CSS, HĂĄkon Wium Lie has written an open letter to the Web community explaining the reasons that Opera has filed an antitrust complaint with the European Union to force Microsoft to support open Web standards in Internet Explorer and to unbundle Internet Explorer from Windows and/or carry alternative […]
ATF Manifesto
The Potential
The Web can be a truly democratic medium that enables people with disabilities in life-changing ways. Blind and visually impaired users can shop online. Those with cognitive difficulties can learn on-line at their own speed. Users with hearing impairments have access to rich media content. People can meet online, participate and socialise without […]
