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Domain names go international

Posted in ICANN, i18n, internationalization, w3cPlanet on October 12, 2007 | 2 Comments »

ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the people who manage domain names, yesterday announced that as of Monday 15th internet domain names would go international.
What this means is that rather than websites being forced to use Roman characters such as .com, .org, .net etc at the end of their domain, countries can [...]

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Beijing 2008 Part One: accessibility

Posted in RNIB, accessibility, article, china, i18n, internationalisation, w3cPlanet on July 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve just published an article in the RNIB Web Access Centre called Beijing 2008 Part1: accessibility. It gives a snapshot overview of where the Beijing 2008 website is currently at in terms of accessibility and suggests steps for improvement.
This is the first or three articles about the current Beijing 2008 site. Next up in the [...]

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The great i18n blog round up

Posted in blogs, i18n, internationalisation on July 8, 2007 | 2 Comments »

A while ago Webaim posted about Great accessibility blog roundup which listed various accessibility blogs that we have all referenced and fed off over the years. Inspired by this I thought I’d start compiling a list of i18n and global design blogs where I go for my daily fix. This is by no means a [...]

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Is i18n the new black?

Posted in i18n, internationalisation on June 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

It’s been interesting to see over the last couple of years how internationalisation (i18n) has gained weight in the web community. Of course I may be wrong as it’s something that I’ve really only been following for that amount of time however previously if I raised it in conversation I would be met with a [...]

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