The Open Web
House Keeping
Information Pioneers:
Tim Berners-Lee
Discussion
The dream behind the Web is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information. Its universality is essential: the fact that a hypertext link can point to anything, be it personal, local or global, be it draft or highly polished. There was a second part of the dream, too, dependent on the Web being so generally used that it became a realistic mirror (or in fact the primary embodiment) of the ways in which we work and play and socialize. That was that once the state of our interactions was on line, we could then use computers to help us analyse it, make sense of what we are doing, where we individually fit in, and how we can better work together.
Tim Berners-Lee
How the World Wide Web just happened
The Web Is Based On
STandards
The Browser wars
Introduction of Web Standards
Activity
A Card Game Without Rules
The Web Is Intended to be
ACcessible
“The Web is fundamentally designed to work for all people, whatever their hardware, software, language, culture, location, or physical or mental ability.”
Example Barriers
- prevent people who are deaf from getting information from a podcast or video
- prevent people with cognitive impairments from reading the content because of moving, blinking, or flickering images
- prevent people with physical impairments from completing a transaction because they cannot use a mouse.