aloha, fellow listmembers! provided for your information is a list of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) technical reports, which have a direct bearing on the development of technology for the blind and visually impaired -- at least, that which is intended for web-based or web-capable applications and slash or devices -- which are currently under public review. they are listed here in descending chronological order: * Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS), version 1.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-pronunciation-lexicon-20060131 * State Chart XML (SCXML): http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-scxml-20060124 * Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) 2.1: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-SMIL2-20051213 * XForms, version 1.1: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xforms11-20051209 * Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA - W3C Note on Alternative to Visual Turing Tests on the Web: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-turingtest-20051123/ * Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines, version 2.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-ATAG20-20051123 * Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0): http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-WCAG20-20051123/ * Understanding WCAG 2.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20-20051123/ * WCAG 2.0 HTML Techniques: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-WCAG20-HTML-TECHS-20051123/ * Evaluation and Report Language (EARL) 1.0 Schema: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-EARL10-Schema-20050909 a full list of W3C Technical Specifications, organized by date of publication, can be found at: http://www.w3.org/TR/tr-date happy reading slash listening slash feeling slash developing, gregory. ------------------------------------------------------------------ He that lives upon Hope, dies Farting. -- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, 1736 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Gregory J. Rosmaita, [log in to unmask] Camera Obscura: http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/index.html UBATS - United Blind Advocates for Talking Signs: http://ubats.org ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------- Email sent using AnyEmail from http://www.hicom.net