Presentation focuses on Web standards
Campus communicators and others who maintain campus Web sites are invited by UW–Madison’s Web Accessibility for All project to attend a presentation by UW-Platteville’s Web coordinator. Dan Frommelt will speak on “The Benefits of Web Standards” on Monday, July 26, at 1 p.m. in the Pyle Center.
Frommelt will discuss advantages of developing Web pages coded to follow the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards. This type of code makes it easier to convert Web pages to other types of media, such as cell phones and palm pilots. The code also supports Web accessibility and compliance with Section 508 federal guidelines.
Frommelt garnered first-place honors at the 2003 International WebDevShare Conference in Bloomington, Ind. He is a Web standards author for “A List Apart,” and has presented at the University of Iowa and at CUMREC in Austin, Texas, one of the nation’s oldest conferences in higher education administrative technology. He is scheduled to speak at the CASE V conference in Chicago this December.
Frommelt’s presentation is a featured part of the Campus Web Council of Wisconsin‘s two-day summer meeting in Madison, July 26-27, which is being hosted by UW-Extension.
“Web Accessibility for All” is a three-year federally funded project of the Center on Education and Work in the School of Education. While the presentation is free, the Campus Web Council of Wisconsin asks people to register by contacting Anne Gravel Sullivan, (608) 265-3171, agsullivan@education.wisc.edu.
