[Sigia-l] RE: Web Standards and I.A.s

[Todd R.Warfel]

Over the past couple of years I've ended up focusing quite a bit on Web 
standards and 508 accessibility. Most of this has been due to working 
on projects funded by NSF that require 508, or Intranets that have 
accessibility requirements.

In either case, I've been responsible for a combination of making 
recommendations and doing semantic markup.

We started out with some experimental projects of our own so that we 
weren't using clients as guinea pigs. It took a bit of time (3 months 
of fiddling with XHTML, CSS, accessibility tags) on our own to get it 
down. But once you learn it, you won't go any other way. And then you 
can speak intelligently about the benefits having done it first hand.

On Apr 6, 2004, at 10:25 AM, O'Neill, Brian wrote:

> I was just curious if any of the I.A.s on the list here have been
> involved with web standards-based design implementations?
>
> Has this affected your job?
> If so, how were you involved in the design process?
> Are you perhaps responsible for markup quality and the semantic angle
> of web standards?


Cheers!

Todd R. Warfel
User Experience Architect
MessageFirst | making products easier to use
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