FWIW. Here's an interesting item. Using the Syllabus Finder at the
Center for History & New Media, I searched for "web design." The
search returned about 189,000 results. As I looked through the first
couple of pages of listings, I was struck by the range of departments
in the web design ed biz and the number of web standards folks.
Perhaps things are not as bad as first impressions might suggest. If
you're interested, Syllabus Finder is available at:
http://chnm.gmu.edu/tools/syllabi/
Best,
Paula
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Paula Petrik
Professor
Department of History & Art History
Associate Director
Center for History & New Media
George Mason University
http://www.archiva.net
On Feb 13, 2006, at 10:24 AM, Chris Taylor wrote:
A large university here in the UK offers web design courses. But I
don't
hold out much hope for the future when they have things like this in
their syllabus:
"Without the use of tables, all web pages would have to be
presented in
purely linear form. Many creative uses of the screen would be
impossible
to achieve. Although tables are a little trickier than other effects
used in basic web design, it is mainly a matter of remembering that
HTML's first purpose is to structure the page; tables are just an
extension of this basic idea. Once you have mastered the basics,
you can
get some very sophisticated effects with table tags."
(Taken from
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/acom/webdesign/materials/lesson4.html)
Has anyone attended this course? Is it really as bad as all that? To
what extent can students do it "the right way" without being penalised
from straying from the Official Course Documentation?
And, a larger question for us all: what are we as web standards and
accessibility evangelists to do about the continued ingorance and
apathy
towards this vital subject, especially in academia? Let's hope that
the
recent Target website court case in the US highlights the cause.
Chris Taylor
www.stillbreathing.co.uk
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