The Author
Leslie F. Sikos, Ph.D.
Dr. Sikos is a hand coder Web standardista specializing in Web Quality Assurance and the Semantic Web. He is particularly interested in Web standardization and optimization, Web accessibility, machine-readable metadata, Web ontologies, and Linked Open Data. He is a senior Web developer and metadata expert known for a variety of professional and academic publications. He is a technical book writer who is known for numerous books on JavaScript, XHTML, XML, CSS, Flash, digital photography and retouching, image processing, video authoring, and hardware. His major fields of interest include, but are not limited to
- Web Quality Assurance
- Web standardization. Recommendations, standards, the Open Web Platform (HTML5 and XHTML5, CSS3, MathML, SVG, JavaScript APIs etc.), advanced XML technologies and serializations, well-formedness, backward and forward compatibility, and code optimality.
- Web accessibility. WCAG 1.0 at all priority levels (1, 2, 3), WCAG 2.0 at all conformance levels (A, AA, AAA), and Section 508.
- Usability and User Experience. Interoperability, reliable layout, browser- and resolution-independence, robust functionality, device independence, and mobile browsing.
- Semantic Web. Metadata annotations, taxonomies/vocabularies/schemes in (X)HTML meta and link tags, Simple and Qualified Dublin Core, IEEE LOM, ODRL, HTML5 microdata, microformats, RDF/RDFa, OWL, FOAF, and DOAC. Linked Open Data (LOD).
Dr. Sikos is a member of several standardization bodies, including the Web Standards Group, the Internet Engineering Task Force, the Internet Society, Unicode, the Guild of Accessible Web Designers, the Web Industry Professionals Association, the Open Digital Rights Language Initiative, and the International Webmasters Association.
For more information please visit www.lesliesikos.com.
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