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Here is a presentation I gave on the CSS cascade at a company training session recently. A simple ste-by-step tutorial on the CSS cascade - for web designers and developers who are new to CSS or have struggled with the Cascade.

Thanks to Bjorn Enki, CSS Centering - fun for all and Web standards checklist have been just been translated into Norwegian:

CSS Sentrering - moro for alle!
Sjekkliste for web standard

The Web standards checklist article has now been translated into 21 languages: Bulgarian, Chinese, Spanish, Italian, Italian, French, German, Polish, French (Quebec), Portuguese, Czech, Russian, Finnish, Serbian, […]

I have attended several meetings recently where clients have stated that they need their sites to comply with WCAG 2.0 - “as this is now the current guideline”. For Australian websites, this is NOT correct. At present, all Australian websites must meet WCAG 1.0 guidelines. As the Australian Human Rights Commission website states:
We are continuing […]

We are excited to announce this years workshop series:

Max Design CSS and Accessibility workshop series - 2009

A hands-on workshop with accessibility expert, Roger Hudson, and CSS expert, Russ Weakley:

Day 1: A practical guide to preparing WCAG 2 compliant websites - with Roger Hudson

An all new accessibility workshop that focuses on providing practical advice to help […]

JPEG XR, an image format created by Microsoft that promises a number of advantages over JPEG, has cleared a key standardization hurdle. The Joint Photographic Experts Group, which standardized the original and still ubiquitous JPEG format, sent JPEG XR to the “final phases of standardization” after a vote at a January meeting, the group said […]

Thanks to Luca Magnani Styling the <hr> element has now been translated into Italian and Ideal line length for content has now been translated into Italian.

Aligning inline images with the vertical-align property has now been translated into Russian by Nickolas Loiko. Translation: выравнивание inline изображений с помощью css свойства vertical-align
Web standards checklist has now been translated into Russian by Nickolas Loiko. Translation: checklist web-стандартов
Web standards checklist has now been translated into Swedish by Lillan Backa. Translation: Web standards checklist - […]

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has published the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 as a Proposed Recommendation, and published updated Working Drafts of Understanding WCAG 2.0, Techniques for WCAG 2.0, and How to Meet WCAG 2.0. WCAG defines how to make Web sites, Web applications, and other Web content accessible to people […]

Version 2 of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0) is about to be released, introducing some changes in the recommendations for website accessibility. WIPA is presenting this afternoon seminar to help the web community understand WCAG 2.0 and prepare sites with improved accessibility.

Roger Hudson will provide an overview of WCAG 2.0 and the compliance […]

Aligning inline images with the vertical-align property has now been translated into Brazilian-Portuguese by Mauricio Samy Silva.