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- Launching the GAWDS Website Re-design Competition
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Current Admins: Jim Byrne, Mel Pedley, Jon Gibbins, Grant Broome, Blair Millen
New Member: Amanda Daniels
Latest Content
- Article: Frames and accessibility added Wednesday 21 Feb 2007
- Article: CSS accessibility problems: is markup dead? added Wednesday 21 Feb 2007
- Article: Accessible Web design: Colour added Wednesday 21 Feb 2007
- Article: Making Data Tables Accessible added Wednesday 21 Feb 2007
- Introduction to WCAG AA self-study training course added Wednesday 21 Feb 2007
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archive
- Launching the GAWDS Website Re-design Competition: Monday 12 Mar 2007
- GAWDS launch free Web Content Accessibilty Guidelines self-study training course: Friday 23 Feb 2007
- New Publication: Making E-communication Accessible: Friday 16 Feb 2007
- Legal & General wins Site of the Month, January 2007: Monday 12 Feb 2007
- On-line love is hard to find for disabled people this Valentine's says AbilityNet: Monday 12 Feb 2007
- Site of the Month, January 2007: Saturday 27 Jan 2007
- New AbilityNet Training courses for web managers: Tuesday 9 Jan 2007
- Woodland Trust Christmas Shop website, December 2006: Sunday 24 Dec 2006
- Site of the Month, December 2006: Monday 18 Dec 2006
- Web accessibility groups not sharing best practices with designers?: Wednesday 6 Dec 2006
- Dante's Pasta wins Site of the Month, November 2006: Thursday 30 Nov 2006
- Petitioning for Accessible Government Websites: Monday 27 Nov 2006
- Site of the Month, November 2006: Tuesday 21 Nov 2006
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Guild of Accessible Web Designers
The Guild of Accessible Web Designers (GAWDS) is a worldwide association of professional organisations, web designers and developers working together to promote the use and preservation of accessible design standards.
"Promoting a vision of the future that assumes accessible web design to be, relevant, obtainable, and not at odds with successful business practice or good visual and usable design."
Join now if you are an accessible web designer or developer, or a supporter of accessible web design.
Featured members
Thursday 29 Mar 2007
Future of Web Design 2007
Here is the blurb from the event organisers,
Join world-leading web designers in London for one day of workshops giving advice and best practice. If you're serious about web design, you can't afford to miss it!
- Design Principles for Web App Interfaces - RYAN SINGER (37Signals)
- CSS and XHTML for Designers - ANDY CLARKE (Stuff and Nonsense)
- Accessible Design 101 - JULIE HOWELL (Fortune Cookie)
- How to Create Rich Media sites with Flash - JOSHUA HIRSCH (Big Spaceship)
- Expanding the Brand - Creating Kick-Ass Microsites - ALEX WILLIAMS (Unit 9)
- Expert, Elegant Typography for the Web - JEFF CROFT (WorldOnline)
Visit www.futureofwebdesign.com/workshops.html for more details.
GAWDS members get 10% off the 'workshop seats' - not sure what is meant by 'workshop seats' though. Check the mailing list for promo code.
Future of Web ... | Thu 11 am: add your comment [0] Jim Byrne
Thursday 29 Mar 2007
Accessible web tips book gets new website
I've put together a website to publicise my book, 60 Hot To Touch Accessible Web Design Tips.
Apart from being of interest because I think it's a good book, there is a page on the site that generates a random tip each time the page is refreshed. Refresh the page for a couple of hours you might end up being able to read the entire book for free - if you are lucky. <joke>
Accessible web ... | Thu 8 am: add your comment [0] Jim Byrne
Thursday 22 Mar 2007
QnECMS content management system gets a good review
QnECMS which happens to be the accessible content management system used on the GAWDS website, got a good review in the in the CMS report by The Centre for Inclusive Technology,
"..may not be as extendable as some other open source CMSs such as Plone or Drupal. However, we do feel it was one of the best we tested."
QnECMS content ... | Jim Byrne
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