Philadelphia Standards Organization

Seems that if you could take one thing away from An Event Apart, its to pay attention to the details. Zeldman and Jason did site critiques and over and over they banged the sites for neglecting the details.

• When Jason talked about the redesign of A List Apart, he focus in on the fact that he was very particular about how the text displayed (line height, whitespace).
• Eric Discussed his focus on detail in the mark-up in the redesign of the same.
• Zeldman drove it home again when he gave the overview of WCAG, when he pointed out that accessibility isn’t just using the alt tag. Accessibility has a lot to do with the details. Making sure that you take into account those who aren’t fully capable is a matter of paying attention to details.

This really defines the standards movement though. It’s not all about CSS and XHTML. It’s not all technology. It’s usability and best practices. There is a lot more involved. Its why the Philadelphia Standards Organization wasn’t the Philadelphia Web Standards Organization. Its more about the product rather than the tools used to build that product. Standards are about the details not about the techonologies.

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