This year’s European IA summit in Berlin, to be held on the weekend of Sept 30 – Oct 1, 2006, looks to be one of this year’s not-to-be-missed conferences for …
@Media 2005 in London
It looks like the hot topic currently in Sydney, London and everywhere else you can think of, has invited those pushing for accessibility, its methods and approaches, to hold an …
The W3C SSML becomes a W3C Recommendation
The W3C Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) has become a W3C Recommendation on 7 September 2004. This standard, aims to enable access to the Web using spoken interaction as an …
Web Essentials 04 – Web Standards conference
The Web Essentials 04 conference in Sydney from the 30th September-1 October will focus on the use and application of web standards, development and accessibility. Guest speakers and presenters include …
CSS tutorials and presentations by Russ Weakley
A great collection of CSS tutorials and presentations by Russ Weakley. Russ is an advocate to CSS design and layout and is a member of the local Sydney chapter, the …
IAThink on colour blindness and usability
Heidi Adkisson from IA Think has posted an interesting blog entry on some of the usability concerns with colour blindness and the hyperlink.
The SyncML open standard & Data Sync
SyncML is an open standard for the wireless mobile industry, that allows for mobility of information by establishing a common language and protocol for communications between devices, applications and networks. …
Mark Pesce, co-inventor of VRML at Siggraph Sydney
Mark Pesce: visionary, programmer, poet and co-inventor of VRML will be making a special appearance at the next Sydney ACM SIGGRAPH December 2003 meeting. The meeting will be held at …
PNG2 becomes a W3C recommendation
PNG Second Edition has now become a W3C Recommendation. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) have released the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Specification (2nd Edition) as a W3C Recommendation and …
The Web Standards Group
The Web Standards Group is a Sydney based collective which aims to provide web developers and designers a forum via a discussion list and meetings, to discuss issues and share …
W3C OWL becomes Candidate Recommendation
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) have issued a Candidate Recommendation for OWL, The Web Ontology Language. OWL is a language for defining structured Web-based ontologies that enables richer integration …
W3C Day at Evolve 2003
The Australian W3C Office are having a seminar titled W3C Day this coming Monday for the Evolve Conference next week in Sydney. The day will provide overviews and information on …
Jeffrey Zeldman’s keynote from Seatle
Jeffrey Zeldman has uploaded his keynote lecture notes (Designing with Web Standards), from the Web Design World in Seatle, US last Month. His notes covers the important reasons for designing …
Don Norman on HumanML
Don Norman has added to the CHI-Web discussion today by commenting that HumanML is one of the most misguided initiatives he has ever seen (Well, there goes that idea I …
Web Standards in Content Management
One of the key areas of delivery for the Web today is the compliance of Standards. Initiatives such as the WebStandards.org Project among many others help build awareness and help …