Re: [WSG] web style guide
Hi Lucien, I don't have any style guides of my own to share, but I have two links you may want to review: A List Apart: Writing an interface style guidehttp://www.alistapart.com/articles/writingainterfacestyleguide/( http://www.alistapart.com/articles/writingainterfacestyleguide/) Government of Canada's Common Look and Feel for the Internethttp://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/clf2-nsi2/index-eng.asp( http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/clf2-nsi2/index-eng.asp) Kris On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 8:59 PM, nedlud ned...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, I need to write a web style guide for our web site. Does anyone know of any good examples I could draw inspiration from? We already have our style sheets etc working, but need to have some kind of documentation we can hand to third party or contract developers so they can work to our standards. Thanks, Lucien. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *** *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
[WSG] Accessibility and HTML Emails
Hi everyone, I work in a small web shop in Canada. We have recently been discussing HTML formatted emails, and accessibility standards or best practices. We have been struggling a little bit, as we often work with WCAG 1 and 2 as baseline standards for web page accessibility. However, WCAG standards, like most of what the W3C produces, is by definition intended to be applied to content on the World Wide Web. Adding in the fact that email clients vary wildly in their HTML rendering capabilities, and on occasion actually modify your HTML code makes things even more confusing. I think there is a lot of valuable and reusable guidance from WCAG 12 that could be applied to HTML emails (color contrast, content logical when linearized, alternative text, etc), and there are a lot of HTML email best practices on sites such as Campaign Monitor. Using these, we're in the process of trying to assemble our own set of guidelines, accepting the reality that HTML is here to stay in our organization, so we might as well make it as accessible as possible. Does anybody have any recommended best practices or standards with regards to HTML emails that they would be willing to share? Saying no HTML emails is an easy way out for us, but it's not a realistic option. Thanks! Kris *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
Re: [WSG] accessibility: government
In Canada, public facing federal government websites must adhere to the Common Look and Feel for the Internet, which includes an accessibility component heavily based on WCAG 1.0. http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/clf2-nsi2/index-eng.asp http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/clf2-nsi2/clfs-nnsi/clfs-nnsi-2-eng.asp Kris Wright On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Koen Willems kwill...@zonnet.nl wrote: Here in the Netherlands we have http://www.webrichtlijnen.nl/english/ Koen Willems -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] Namens Luc Verzonden: woensdag 26 augustus 2009 20:41 Aan: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Onderwerp: [WSG] accessibility: government Good afternoon list, Does anybody know if their exists a list of what is required in terms of accessibility features for each country (governments)? -- Regards, Luc _ http://www.dzinelabs.com Using the best e-mail client: The Bat! version 4.2.6 with Windows XP (build 2600), version 5.1 Service Pack 3 and using the best browser: Opera. Xerox never comes up with anything original. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *** *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *** *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
