The Guild Arrives

GAWDS (The Guild of Accessible Web Designers) is now officialy released.

Created by Jim Byrne and in an ongoing development process by many devoted members. The press release states its purpose:

One of GAWDS immediate goals is to address and debunk myths that lead some Web designers to shrug off standards. Guild members websites will demonstrate the inherent good sense of Web standards and give encouragement and support to designers who adopt standards in their work. There are also longer-term plans to offer accreditation programs that give members a competitive edge through association with and profiling on the GAWDS site.

Read the full GAWDS press release

Search Engine Optimisation and Accessibility

I totally forgot about this e-mail, here is a short quote out of it, including the link which points towards the documents:

Search Engine Optimisation and Web Accessibility is a paper discussing how the W3C accessibility guidelines are used to improve performance in search engines. It points out how to use each checkpoint and is an attempt to persuade optimisers to make the W3C guidelines standard practice in SEO.

Toolman vs. Nielsen

Tommy (Toolman) has been heralded as the "New Face of Accessibility". A massive PR campaign must ensue so that we can get him to his rightful position in the world. Contribute artwork....

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