List of references to higher ed web policies, guides, service pages and accessibility statements.

Louis Lazaris runs through some examples.

Roger Johansson looks at the specs.

Emotion Markup Language 1.0, second draft includes some interesting discussion, for a W3C spec.

Unicorn - “W3C’s Unified Validator”

Zeldman on the “humanism” of the original CSS 1 specification, and the importance of finding a practical middle ground between simplicity and technical capability when constructing web standards.

Joe Clark on the limitations of markup languages.

Showcase of styles using the ePub format to mark George Eliot’s “Middlemarch.”

Joe Clark’s browser test page for various space characters.

Outlines some themes of cloud computing, challenges to openness, and some principles for meeting them.

Ben Buchanan on making the case against IE6 support. He outlines a graded approach to the problem, ranging from full support to actively telling your users to avoid IE6. The in-between options are worth thinking about where developer choice is limited.

EveryBlock advocates for the use of open data standards by governments.

WebAIM has made a checklist of WCAG 2.0 recommendations. It’s a quick intro to WCAG 2.0 with an emphasis on the concise and the practical.

Sam Ruby's history by selected quotations of the state of HTML5, with reference to XHTML2, ARIA and the WHATWG.

Roger Johansson on WAI-ARIA 1.0 which is now in last call working draft stage. He's urging those with an interest in it to read the draft and comment publicly by March 24, 2009.

Eric Meyer kicks off a four-part reaction to WaSP's call for community feedback on CSS3. He's adamant about the need for a new layout model for CSS. Interesting that he doesn't like the CSS tables approach one bit.

Clay Schossow on big agencies with Flash lumps for web sites.

David Robinson, et al. urging government to adopt an open data policy.

Philipp Lenssen on some modest page-weight savings Google could have made back in 2006 by moving from their deprecated markup to a standards-based XHTML and CSS approach.

David Robinson on why government should expose published data in accessible, machine readable form, using open standards.