I recently spent a great deal of time on the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) site, combing through the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 working draft. There's a lot of very fine material in that document. Unfortunately, for the average designer it's pretty much, well, inaccessible.
We've been extremely busy lately at the University lately, which you may have guessed from my lack of posts. I've been working lots of late nights and weekends, but I have to say that telecommuting has made the whole experience much easier.
Launching a web site, even a redesign, is a painful experience for me. It's kind of like cramming for final exams, giving birth, and walking out on stage all at the same time...
Jeffrey Zeldman recently announced that "An Event Apart commissioned a fact-finding mission...to find out everything that is actually known about the percentage of women in our field." The numbers are disturbing...
Since reading Andy Clarke's Transcending CSS, I've come to the realization that I'm a slacker. Reading along as Clarke created superb web pages without a solitary div was an eye-opening experience. Not altogether a comfortable one. Because soon after, I had to open up a file of my own HTML markup and confront The Creature.
