Based on the World Wide Web Consortium's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, this toolkit ensures developers are creating accessible online content. The left-hand panel allows readers to quickly navigate through five sections, or users can browse across content using the search bar in the top-right corner. Of course, the Introduction section is a great place to begin. Here, readers will learn...

This Request for Comments (RFC) is the first in a series of Informational RFC's to be produced by the Dublin Core (DC) Metadata Workshop Series. This first RFC provides an introduction to the Dublin Core, "a fifteen-element metadata element set intended to facilitate discovery of electronic resources." The RFC also presents the consensus reached by librarians, digital library researchers, content...

Dublin Core metadata has been implemented in several ways, including as HTML metatags and as database elements, as it is used in the Scout Archives (discussed in the June 20, 1997 issue of the Scout Report). The DC elements are title, author, subject, description, publisher, other contributor, date, resource type, format, resource identifier, source, language, relation, coverage, and rights...

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has issued its first recommendation for Synchronized Multi-media Integration Language. The specification intends to help "bring television-like content to the web, avoiding the limitations for traditional television and lowering the bandwidth requirements for transmitting this type of content over the Internet. With SMIL [pronounced smile], producing...

The World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) User Agent Accessibility Guidelines, part of their Web Accessibility Initiative, address how to design user agents such as Web browsers that make the Web more accessible for people with disabilities. The guidelines focus on the accessibility of interfaces and internal facilities as well as communication with other technologies. These September 12, 2001...

Dated August 24, 2001, this online working draft of Web content accessibility guidelines comes from the World Wide Web Consortium (WC3). The aim of this accessibility project is to make Web more navigable to people with disabilities. The first draft of the guidelines was published in 1999 (mentioned in the May 7, 1999 Scout Report). This newer version incorporates reader feedback, covers a wider...

Founded in 1994, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has been primarily concerned with “…developing protocols and guidelines that ensure long-term growth for the Web.” To do so, they draw on a set of international professionals and experts throughout the field of computer science and related fields. The W3C is led by Tim Berners-Lee, who directs the project and who was also responsible for...