Re: [WSG] web style guide

[kris wright]

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
guide(
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/writingainterfacestyleguide/)
Government of Canada's Common Look and Feel for the
Internet(
http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/clf2-nsi2/index-eng.asp)

Kris


On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 8:59 PM, nedlud  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.
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[WSG] Accessibility and HTML Emails

[kris wright]

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 1&2 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


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Re: [WSG] accessibility: government

[kris wright]

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  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."
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