Category Archives: Standards

Accessible Documentation

Thursday, June 3, 2010

I was recently asked to give a presentation on the relationship between technical documentation and accessibility for an event held at the University of Applied Sciences here in Potsdam. The event was organized by the Institute for Information and Documentation (IID) in the Faculty of Information Science and supported by the German-Austrian office of the [...]

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OASIS Approves DITA 1.1

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

The DITA Technical Committee at OASIS, the international open standards consortium, has announced the approval of DITA version 1.1 as an OASIS Standard. Version 1.1 of DITA provides enhanced print publishing capabilities with new DITA Bookmap specialization, including extended book metadata. The standard offers more indexing capabilities with new elements for “see” and “see-also” references. [...]

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BusinessWeek on Web Standards

Monday, August 13, 2007

It’s not often mainstream media carries a story like this: Jeffrey Zeldman: King of Web Standards. If enough people in upper management read this article and begin to understand the importance of interoperability and separating content from presentation, it might make designers’ lives much easier. As the “King” himself says: It might even help designers [...]

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