Paul's Web Space 2.1

Blue Beanie Day

Today is Blue Beanie Day 2007 — an effort to increase support for the notion of designing sites and applications using web standards and accessibility guidelines. It is being celebrated on Flickr and Facebook, and is organized by the Facebook group named after the book Designing With Web Standards by Jeffrey Zeldman — the "bible" of web standards web development using Cascading Style Sheets (or CSS).

Another, perhaps more serious, long-term effort to promote this cause is the Web Standards Project. The movement toward improving the accessibility of web sites is embodied in the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative.

I'm a long-time supporter of these efforts, both by providing vocal support and by practicing these methods myself and in projects that I manage to the greatest practical extent. For the festivities, I took my first self-portrait with my Treo 750 last night (using that little fisheye mirror), sporting the spiffy blue baseball cap given out at the last Freedom to Connect conference in Silver Spring, organized by David Isenberg.

Labels: bluebeanieday2007, browsers, standards, webstandards

   Link: http://www.flickr.com/groups/bluebeanieday2007/

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