Lachlan Hardy wrote: > The key component there, though, is convincing the relevant > curriculum bodies of the importance of standards-based design.
My thought (and I blogged on this today - interesting discussion!) is that it's not something to be "added" to a curriculum, rather it's part of teaching basic web design and the use of web development tools. It's just as easy to teach good coding as bad coding, and tools like Dreamweaver can be used to code to standards or not - so why not teach about standards from the start? Though I agree to get those words in a course outline (web standards, web accessibility and so on) might be a bit of a battle... Nevertheless the teachers still need to somehow gain an understanding of why it is a good thing to teach web standards. Groups like the WSG have a big role to play there. For example, our first Perth WSG meeting was at Edith Cowan University and was attended by some of the teaching staff. (I'm not saying these staff members previously didn't know or care about web standards - not at all. But the thing is, we didn't know either way so it was a good opportunity and we hope they found it valuable in one way or another.) So getting out there amongst people who are in a position to change things is one potentially effective method. Vicki. :-) -- Vicki Berry DistinctiveWeb Web: http://www.distinctiveweb.com.au Blog: http://www.unheardword.com ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
