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HTML 5 Alternative Text, and Authoring Tools discusses the deeper issues involved with the HTML 5 Working Group’s conversation about alternative text. I’ve never agreed it should be optional for authoring tools and totally agree with Gez. Particularly the section on research. What’s to research? Why should the uninterested tail be wagging the web standards horse?

I have an idea… why don’t we let Flickr worry about its own business model and ability to provide compliant software? Just a thought for the working group.

Do we really need microformats? Robert Nyman is saying what a lot of us have been whispering about microformats for a long time - bulky non-semantic code riddled with excessive spans. Very good points all of them. Are you using microformats?

Andy Clarke’s Microformats: The Fine Art of Markup.

Design Coding from Poetic Prophet - SEO Rapper has put another dimension to the education of best practice website development. Who would have thought web standards, accessibility and usability would make it to the Rap scene?

Aptana Studio 1.1 is a free cross platform web development environment.

The 960 Grid System is an effort to streamline web development workflow.

There are some excellent resources again in Smashing Magazine’s Best of March 2008.

Steve Faulkner’s coverage of the title attribute is a must read. The first on his list, the title attribute - what is it good for? Then assistive technology users test title attribute access and screen reader software support for the title attribute. This should just about bring you up to speed.