The best just got better: Mozilla 1.1 is out — download it today.

SatireWire, a more serious (if possible) Onion, is shutting down due to “creative differences.”

And in a story, despite the topic, that was not ripped form the headlines of either of the aforementioned publications: Sony has admitted defeat in the VHS vs. Betamax battle it lost decades ago.

In an excellent article by one of my new favourite bloggers, Adrian Holovaty shows why online journalists should pay attention to Web accessibility. This is a bigger issue than many people suspect. Most news sites are build by embedding tables-within-tables-within-tables, and most are text heavy. Try looking at any major news site in a text browser and you can begin to understand how a screen reader would “translate” a page.

If you work in the industry, and you have the ability to alter pages, start taking small steps to improve your site’s accessibility. For example, when working on a page, I:

• remove “spacer” graphics
• add alternate text to all images I can
• define abbreviations
• add labels to forms
• build data tables with thead, tbody, and summaries whenever possible
• include a title for most links
• use style sheets over fonts

For more tips, read Mark Pilgrim’s Dive Into Accessibility. Though written for bloggers, its tips can be applied to any Web site.

For those looking for semantically correct names for your style sheet rules, here’s a glossary of terms used by the graphic design industry to define sections of pages.