Announcing the second annual Blue Beanie Day. Please join us on Friday, November 28, 2008 to show your support for web standards and accessibility.

Participating’s easy: get your picture taken wearing a blue toque or beanie. On November 28, switch your profile picture in Facebook, Twitter, et al., and post your royal blueness to the Blue Beanie Day 2008 photo group at Flickr. That’s all there is to it!

Blue Beanie Day is the brainchild of Doug Vos, creator of the Designing With Web Standards group on Facebook. Since October 27, 2007, over 4,300 members have joined, representing over fifty countries.

Doug invented Blue Beanie Day in 2007 to promote awareness of web standards. Blue Beanie Day 2007 can be found on Facebook; photos from last year’s celebration are available for your viewing pleasure.

Tags: webstandards, bluebeanieday

Filed under: Blue Beanie Day, Browsers, Standards, Web Design, Websites

39 Responses to “Blue Beanie Day II”

1. RefreshColumbia.org said on 10 December 2008 at 7:42 pm:

   Kyle reminded me the other day that I should promoteBlue Beanie Dayhere. The concept is simple, but a little obscure, so I’ll summarize: One of the most profound and ground breaking books about web standards was Jeffrey Zeldman’s Designing with Web Standards.  The book advocated the use of accessible, semantic

2. droll exhaust . . . said on 29 November 2008 at 4:23 am:

   since I got out of retail over 8 years ago. I had enough of that craziness way back then. I stayed home and enjoyed a nice day with the family. Ate some yummy left-overs and took a nap in a chair. My lovely wife stayed up late just to knit me a hat forblue beanie day. She rocks! Support Web Standards!

3. elbicho said on 28 November 2008 at 10:50 pm:

   standards. Hey! look at me at the RRW post.

4. latent | design said on 28 November 2008 at 3:30 pm:

   — it’s good for you, your browsers and surfers and it’s good for the web… face it, Web Standards just make sense. Huh, what’s up with that? Visit A List Apart to get more info on Web Standards orget the skinny right from Zeldman. ALA has lots of articles on Web Standards. You can also visit The Web Standards Project which is “a grassroots coalition fighting for standards which ensure simple, affordable access to web technologies for all.”

5. Place Name Here said on 28 November 2008 at 2:59 pm:

   Find out more from the originalblue beanie wearer and Designing With Web Standards author Jeffrey Zeldman. [ tags: web standards blue beanie day blue beanie day 2008 me self portrait photo ]

6. Nur ein Blog - Blog said on 28 November 2008 at 8:14 am:

   weltweit

7. Wisdump said on 26 November 2008 at 7:43 am:

   On Friday, November 28, standardistas all over the world shall unite to celebrate the2nd Blue Beanie Day, an informal event promoting web standards and accessibility. Participants are invited to wear a blue beanie—like the one Jeffrey Zeldman wore on the cover of Designing With Web Standards —then snap a photo of themselves and share it with

8. Zero to One-Eighty said on 24 November 2008 at 3:28 am:

   of a legislative requirement soon in Canada and Australia. It’s pretty dismal currently despite the fact that WCAG+Samurai and WCAG 2.0 require (yes) captioning for video. He mentions, and criticises, YouTube’s closed captioning model.Blue Beanie Day II# Blue Beanie Day II is coming up. Show your support for web standards and accessibility by wearing a blue beanie on Friday, November 28, wherever you lurk on the web. Here’s some photos from the inaugural BBD last year. The 100% Easy-2-Read Standard # A

9. 
   Jason said on 19 November 2008 at 9:19 pm:

   Sooo…what do I do if I don’t have a blue beanie?

10. 
    John Lampard said on 20 November 2008 at 12:10 am:

    And web professionals down under and in otherwise summery climates could subsitute the beanie for a blue cap. :)

11. 
    Steven Clark said on 20 November 2008 at 1:26 am:

    Ahhh the blue beanie comes out again. Mine is a relic of my teenage years, circa 1983… hand knitted. Last worn for the last Blue Beanie day.

    Should be fun. I’ll try to be more creative this year. :)

12. 
    Peter Magellan said on 20 November 2008 at 4:49 am:

    Wow. So that’s what a beanie is. All these years I’ve owned half a dozen of the things and I never knew. No blue ones, though. Will an Arri baseball cap do? It kind of fits one of the descriptions… :-)

13. 
    Des said on 20 November 2008 at 5:12 am:

    If you don’t have a blue beanie, there’s always Photoshop ;-)

14. 
    Ross said on 20 November 2008 at 6:20 am:

    Better find a blue beanie pronto!

15. 
    John said on 20 November 2008 at 7:10 am:

    If you don’t have a blue beanie, buy a University of Michigan one. Should be cheap considering their football record this year…

16. 
    Walrus said on 20 November 2008 at 11:08 am:

    I cn let u ware mah bukkit.

17. nortypig » Blog Archive » Blue Beanie Day 2008 said on 20 November 2008 at 4:29 pm:

    [...] Blue Beanie Day is back and if you want to support web standards you should don a blue beanie, take a photo and post it to the relevant social network. Unfortunately, even though I use a Flickr account rarely, I’m never going to know what that Facebook link points to Jeffrey. Is this an assumption that if you’re not on Facebook you’re a nobody? [...]

18. 
    antoine butler said on 21 November 2008 at 1:11 pm:

    Must.Buy.Beenie

    I’m gonna have to come up with something uber clever for this years BBD.

19. 
    Jose Espinoza said on 21 November 2008 at 4:08 pm:

    Awesome, Blue Beanie Day and My Birthday are both reasons for all of us to celebrate.

20. 
    Tokind said on 22 November 2008 at 11:28 pm:

    So, Jeffrey,
    Are you going to blue up your shades-of-green visage at the bottom of this page? Beanie-wise?

21. 
    Jeffrey Zeldman said on 23 November 2008 at 7:07 am:

    Tokind:

    Awesome creative suggestion. Hmm.

22. Vos Virtual Network » Blue Beanie Day 2008 said on 24 November 2008 at 7:37 am:

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23. Support web standards, wear a blue beanie! | Wisdump said on 26 November 2008 at 2:44 am:

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24. 
    Aja Lapus said on 27 November 2008 at 11:31 am:

    Wearing a blue beanie right nao! ^^ Happy blue beanie day from the Philippines!

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32. 
    Harold Maduro said on 28 November 2008 at 6:04 pm:

    Happy Blue Beanie day from sunny & rainy Panama !!!

    Go Web Standards!!

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