Style sheets describe how documents are presented on screens, in print, or perhaps how they are pronounced. W3C has actively promoted the use of style sheets on the Web since the Consortium was founded in 1994. The Style Activity has produced several W3C Recommendations (CSS1, CSS2, XPath, XSLT). CSS especially is widely implemented in browsers.
By attaching style sheets to structured documents on the Web (e.g. HTML), authors and readers can influence the presentation of documents without sacrificing device-independence or adding new HTML
The W3C Multimodal Interaction (MMI) Working Group [1] held a face to
face meeting in Hawthorne, New York, September 22-24, 2004, hosted by
IBM. There were 33 attendees from 23 organizations. This note
summarizes the results of the meeting.
The MMI meeting was colocated with a meeting of the Voice Browser
Working Group [2]. We took advantage of this to hold a joint meeting
with the Voice Browser group about the evolving Voice Browser V3
architecture and its relationship to multimodal architectures.
The MMI meeting focused on MMI
{Update: We inferred logic where there was none. The W3C has not changed the behavior of its validation service per the rationale explored below. The service is simply broken. Presumably it will get fixed. Meanwhile, many valid CSS sites will be incorrectly labeled invalid. Don’t start redesigning just yet.}
The W3C’s CSS validation service has changed the way it interprets CSS authoring practices. Many sites that were designed valid no longer validate. The change in behavior affects sites that use the box model hack to compensate for the
Introduction
All the features of the World Wide Web that make it appealing to nondisabled persons – the enormous range of information, the unfiltered opinions published by average people, the self-serve shopping, and more – also make the Web appealing to people with disabilities. However, statistics show that disabled people have a lower Web usage than people without disabilities. Volunteer administrators can increase disabled people’s participation in their organizations’ Web sites by “authoring” – that is, coding, writing, designing,