FodnessMemo07

Ten historical events:

1969 - Creation of the Internet 1973 - Rehabilitation Act 1989 - Creation of the World Wide Web 1989 - Creation of JAWS assistive software 1990 - Americans with Disabilities Act 1993 - First popular web browser (Mosaic) 1994 - Formation of W3C 1997 - First edition of Dreamweaver 1999 - First ACID test 2006 - National Federation for the Blind vs. Target lawsuit

Ten events in 2006:

1) National Federation for the Blind vs. Target 2) Adobe in the process of assimilating Macromedia, and merging Adobe GoLive and Macromedia Dreamweaver into Adobe Dreamweaver 8 3) Access Board announces intent to establish an advisory committee to make recommendations on revisions and updates to Section 508 4) Telecommunications and Electronic and Information Technology Advisory Committee (TEITAC) met for the first time on September 27-29 5) Official WWW conference of 2006 6) Explosion of AJAX usage on the web 7) Draft specification from the W3C on AJAX 8) Firefox 2 released 9) Browser compliance testing on the ACID2 test ongoing 10) Earthquakes in Taiwan disrupt Internet communication by taking out undersea cables