For colleges and universities based in the USA, you might want to look at
your respective state laws with respect web accessibility. Some states are
either incorporating the federal Section 508 accessibility law for all
state (supported) web sites, or are writing their own state web
accessibility
The way my school approached it was interesting. My major was in a
combination of Interactivity, Video, and Animation under the label of Time
Arts. It was definitely different than what I hear you describing here, so
I think it depends on the university.
For the interactive/web end of things, we
I was hired to work on a section of a fairly visible high volume site in the
US. I had an image comp and was all set to build out the structure using
standards when I got handed the html and css I was supposed to use.
I was aghast as the table based nested table structure that was so sloppy it
Hi James,
In addition to some of the ideas given, what about showing your
lecturer some inspiring examples like CSS Zen Garden, and others?
Hopefully he can also discover designing with css and standards, and
really get into it. I had shown zen garden to a colleague few years
ago - he got hooked a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've always thought of doing something like a web standards curriculum pack,
either in printed or online form, that we put together as a suggested
curriculum for universities to give to students
David,
I'd suggest getting in touch with somebody from the WaSP EDU task
I'm not a university... Just a poor schmuck trying to stay afloat in
the world of web design/coding but a website like what you are
talking about would be very very helpful. I would be willing to help
in any way I could (Without charge unless you took up too much of my
family time :))
But
At least in Universities (colleges - as in the English colleges, not the
American term, may be different) my experience is that lecturers have a
research area, which is why they are still in academia. Teaching is just a
necessary evil they have to go through, especially if it is not related to
the
I am actually having a similar problem. I was able to skip the Web
Development class, so I didn't have to sit through it, but I am sure it
is similar to how yours is. We have a Javascript class and the HTML that
is taught in there is hideous. Also, my teacher in my Multimedia class
is wanting u
Hi,
If you HAVE to use tables you can still go some way in meeting
accessibility standards by compliance with guidelines:
5.3 Do not use tables for layout unless the table makes sense when
linearized. [Priority 2]
5.4 If a table is used for layout, do not use any structural markup for
the purpo
On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 07:18:32 pm James Jeffery wrote:
> Good Morning!
>
> Here is my problem. Im at college this year, preparing for University
> (Hopefully Birmingham) to
> study Software Engineering. At college we have a class on a Thursday called
> "Web Development"
> and the guy thats teaching t
Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
James Jeffery wrote:
It does: http://www.matthew-boulton.ac.uk/
The site looks o.k, but as you can see the methods are wrong.
Hah, it's been a while since I've seen the following
It's on par with
At least there's some attempt at CSS layout on that site, though..
Stuart Foulstone wrote:
Hi,
You could possibly use how your college's own Website is coded to support
your case.
I don't know which college you're at, but look at how their Website is
coded - I would be surprised if their still using the methods your tutor
is teaching.
I feel your frustra
ards,
>
> Frank M. Palinkas
> Microsoft M.V.P. - Windows Help
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> W3C HTML Working Group (H.T.M.L.W.G.) - Invited Expert
>
> M.C.P., M.C.T., M.C.S.E., M.C.D.B.A., A+
>
> Senior Technical Communicator
>
> Web Standards & Accessibility Designer
>
>
>
> On Sat, October 20, 2007 10:18 am, James Jeffery wrote:
> > What power do i have (if any) to try and get the college to understand
> > they
> > cannot use a cowboy to
> > teach tomorrows computer experts. Should i use my essay and examples and
> > take it to the head of
> > the college? I really
James Jeffery wrote:
It does: http://www.matthew-boulton.ac.uk/
The site looks o.k, but as you can see the methods are wrong.
Hah, it's been a while since I've seen the following
It's on par with
At least there's some attempt at CSS layout on that site, though...could
be a good startin
Yeah The Site is built by tables layout.
But as you can see an external company built it:
http://www.mediascopeltd.com/
I think you should try to persuade your tutor that what he teach, it's
wrong.
show him sites which talks about web standards, about css models.
show him the following presentatio
It does: http://www.matthew-boulton.ac.uk/
The site looks o.k, but as you can see the methods are wrong.
On 10/21/07, Stuart Foulstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> You could possibly use how your college's own Website is coded to support
> your case.
>
> I don't know which college you'r
Hi,
You could possibly use how your college's own Website is coded to support
your case.
I don't know which college you're at, but look at how their Website is
coded - I would be surprised if their still using the methods your tutor
is teaching.
--
Stuart Foulstone.
http://www.bigeasyweb.co.u
James Jeffery
Sent: Saturday, 20 October, 2007 12:00 PM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] Web Standards In Colleges and Universities
Thanks Toney.
Most of the documents we are handed from the tutor are grammatically wrong
and contain a huge amount of spelling errors, such as:
"Place the
Thanks Toney.
Most of the documents we are handed from the tutor are grammatically wrong
and contain a huge amount of spelling errors, such as:
"Place the curser over the table cell click ok when you done"
Im not sure who is writing them, but again, another issue.
I will have a private chat wit
On 20 Oct 2007, at 10:18, James Jeffery wrote:
Should i use my essay and examples and
take it to the head of
the college? I really don't know how to go about this, but its
definatly a
problem.
Who set the syllabus?
Assuming it's the college administration, then they are the people to
d
Good Morning!
Here is my problem. Im at college this year, preparing for University
(Hopefully Birmingham) to
study Software Engineering. At college we have a class on a Thursday called
"Web Development"
and the guy thats teaching the class in an absolute joke, no seriously, he
is.
He is teaching
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