Re: [WSG] Books - CSS/Standards/Accessibility

[Tim]

Speaker lists for some major events indicate who is best at sales 
training promotion to the Australian government and standards are low 
in my opinion. I would not attend some of these conferences due to the 
focus of some commercial interests in circumventing the Australian 1992 
Disability Discrimination Act's legal implications for W3C validity and 
accessibility.

Try this resource Ben I made it, you be the judge, it is Australian but 
also compares UK and USA sites.

http://www.hereticpress.com/Dogstar/Publishing/AustWeb.html

Tim

On 12/02/2007, at 12:01 PM, Ben Buchanan wrote:

 If hypothetically we were thinking of running a course covering CSS 
design
techniques, Standards and Acessibility, is there a top five book list 
to
complement such an undertaking.

Some excellent suggestions have been made; however I'd also try to get
the students used to looking for their own resources online. For
example, put them onto A List Apart, get them to look at speaker lists
for major events and so on. Tell them that Jakob Nielsen often does
great research but his conclusions go well with a proverbial grain of
salt.

Plenty of students won't care but for those who do, it would be great
to get them used to the idea that the industry is changing rapidly and
they can be as much a part of that as they want to.

One thing... if you get any questions on scripting, I'd recommend
pointing them to the Hijax methodology and the book "DOM Scripting" by
Jeremy Keith. If anyone thinks that standards are restrictive, point
them to "Transcending CSS" by Andy Clarke.

I hope this helps :)

cheers,

Ben

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