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Australian Government Endorses WCAG 2.0 Web Accessibility Guidelines
www.pheedcontent.com
The Australian Government have announced their plan to adhere with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. All Government websites will require Level A compliance by 2012, and Double A by 2015. The new standard replaces replaces WCAG 1.0, which was introduced as a mandated requirement for agencies in 2000. Lindsay...
Apps must be cross platform
www.geekwire.com
Photo via Bigstock Maybe there are a few Robert Scobles out there who still believe that a significant number of successful apps in the future will be unique to any one client platform. Connected experiences across all devices is where the growth is and it would be insane for anyone, from a...
New Windows 8 accessibility features detailed
www.theverge.com
When the Windows 8 public beta launches later this month, Microsoft will be introducing improvements to two of the OS's key accessibility features, the Narrator and Magnifier. The Narrator — which reads on-screen content for the visually impaired — is said to be more responsive, support more languages and...
Future iPads To Have Front-facing Cameras, Flash (Bulbs, Not Software)
techcrunch.com
What the deuce? It seems that the new iPad SDK 3.2 Beta 3 has some very interesting bits of code and UI components that point to a front facing camera - a boolean called hasFrontCamera - and a boolean for a flash LED (not Adobe Flash) called hasFlash. There are...
Facebook releases SDK 3.0 Beta with iOS 6 integration & new iOS Dev Center
9to5mac.com
Facebook today announced it is releasing its biggest iOS SDK update yet with the release of SDK 3.0 Beta for iOS, which also includes iOS 6 integration for native Facebook login. It is also rolling out a completely refreshed iOS Dev Center with tutorials, concepts, and reference docs to help iOS app developers...
Design studio Teehan+Lax releases brilliant Retina iPad GUI template that requires Photoshop 6
thenextweb.com
Toronto, Canada-based design studio Teehan+Lax has released an updated version of its iPad PSD template for app designers, and it clocks in at an enormous 104.1MB unzipped. That may not sound like a lot in terms of raw megabytes, but it’s huge for a design template that is essentially a sketch of...
Atlassian Open Sources its User Interface (AUI) – Developer Documentation
www.sordyl.info
The Atlassian User Interface (AUI) is a set of reusable, cross-browser tested, high-quality JavaScript and CSS UI components. We developed AUI for use in Atlassian applications such as JIRA, Confluence and others. As a plugin developer, you will find AUI useful to provide standard, sophisticated UI components that plugin...
Box seeks new allies in cloud storage wars with integration framework
gigaom.com
There’s no way to paint Salesforce.com’s decision to launch Chatterbox — its own cloud file share and storage service — as good news for Box. After all, Salesforce.com is both an investor in and partner with Box. Still Box is forging ahead with new alliances with other Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) players...
Say hello to Microsoft.com’s new look – Preview or not, we like what we are seeing
thenextweb.com
Microsoft has a preview of its coming homepage redesign live that anyone can take a peek at. We recommend that you give it a full tour. As far as corporate homepages go, this one is aces. TNW’s own Matthew Panzarino noted its heavy ‘Metro’ influence, Microsoft’s current design aesthetic that...
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