Kat wrote:
Gday,
I find this list filled with dynamic, inspirational people. I come
away being motivated and energised. I love youse guys. :)
Today, I came across AIMIA (Australian Interactive Media Industry
Association - http://www.aimia.com.au/) that are having their 12th
Annual AIMIA awards. Is anyone a member of this group? Does anyone
know anything about them? Is anyone a finalist?
Used to be a member when it first formed. Went to the first conference
way back in the early 90's. It was quite good actually, very
interesting discussions, very informative on many levels. But after
that, I didn't find any reason to follow up on it. Taken a look from
time to time, and find the web standards based community much more
interesting, informative, and addressing the issues I'm focused on. But
like a lot of things, I may have missed a lot of good things going on
over there just because they dropped out of my focus. Only have two
eyes, hands, etc.
I had a look at some of the finalists and although they seem to
require WCAG Priority 1 Accessibility, to reach that, don't your
websites need to actually validate (at least some of their finalists
don't)? Have I misunderstood?
Valid documents is a P2 checkpoint -
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/wai-pageauth.html#tech-identify-grammar
I rather think it's a good idea - but I think it misses a certain
something (tableless design, validation, accessibility, etc). There
are so many designers/developers on this list (and elsewhere) doing so
many amazing things - why don't they ever get recognised for the good
things they do? They deserve it more!! Would there be a way to give
them the recognition they deserve?
Kat
If WSG members contribute to it, great, but does it provide value for
membership? http://www.aimia.com.au/i-cms?page=1.3.329.8
Regards
Geoff.
******************************************************
The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/
See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm
for some hints on posting to the list & getting help
******************************************************
