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Newest Member: Rob Reed from UK.

Guild of Accessible Web Designers (GAWDS) Cracks The Whip

New Web Standards Incubator Will Act As Catalyst For Worldwide Adoption Of Professional Standards.

26th May 2004 - The Guild of Accessible Web Designers marked its launch today by calling upon Web designers to embrace accessibility as the cornerstone and guiding principle of their profession. Read the Press Release.

Jim Byrne interviews Guild members about the future of web accessibility.

22 celebrity interviews for the usual price of one. Find out what some of our most opinionated members have got to say about the Guild and the future of accessible web design.

Enter the competition to re-design this website.

We need a site that reflects our aims, embodies our message and reflects our brand. Are you up for the challenge? This competition is open to everyone - members and non-members.

What is the Guild of Accessible Web Designers?

Wednesday 26 May 2004

GAWDS aims to push web accessibility into mainstream of web development

The Guild of Accessible Web Designers promotes a vision of the future that assumes accessible web design to be relevant, obtainable and not at odds with successful business practice or good visual and usable design.

GAWDS.org is pushing accessible web design into the mainstream of web development - it may be travelling in that direction already - but the Guild aims to speed that process up. For more information read: What is the Guild of Accessible Web Designers?

• GAWDS aims to ...
• Wed 12 am: add your comment [0] Jim Byrne

Wednesday 12 May 2004

The Way Forward with Web Standards

MACCAWS (making a commercial case for adopting web standards) have published a document outlining the business case for adopting web standards:

• why it is in your organization's best interests to implement Web standards,
• steps that you can take to achieve standards-compliance and make it part of your process,
• concepts that are non-technical, non-proprietary, and apply to all manner of Web sites, regardless of their size, function and complexity.

• The Way Forward...
• Wed 9 am: add your comment [0] Jim Byrne

Diary archive

• Guild of Accessible Web Designers: open for business: Sunday 30 Nov 2003
• The most powerful element in (X)HTML?: Thursday 23 Oct 2003
• GAWDS.org: Update 5: Tuesday 7 Oct 2003
• New Members form is now live: Monday 6 Oct 2003
• Customising Accessibility News Feeds: Thursday 2 Oct 2003
• GAWDS.org moves to www.gawds.org: Saturday 20 Sep 2003
• An end to Plug-ins?: Sunday 31 Aug 2003
• Update 4: Let's get going!: Wednesday 13 Aug 2003
• Update 3: Wednesday 2 Jul 2003
• What is gawds.org?: Thursday 15 May 2003