Re: [WSG] Question about accessibility

2008-08-27 Thread Ian Chamberlain
Agreed Jason, totally blind users may be small in number but turning away 
those with partial sight could hurt your clients bottom line; the trick is 
to invite in the missing 11% without making the site so boring that 
normal users wander off elsewhere.

Further it may help to widen the accessibility argument; these days for 
example I can often be found slumped in a corner in the evenings with my 
Ipod touch seeking out images for use use on my own and clients sites.

Pre Ipod touch I wandered between two or three such sites looking for 
inspiration; these days I tend to go to just the one place to spend my money 
mainly because my Ipod barfs when faced with Flash or poor design and 
because the site I like just works on the mobile device as well as the 
real mac or various PCs.

Usability and accessibility in action as it were.



- Original Message - 
From: Jason Pruim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 11:37 AM
Subject: [WSG] Question about accessibility


Good Morning everyone!

  I have a client that wants me to write his navigation mostly as a
picture and then use image maps to get to the actual links.

I am wondering, how would I go about convincing my client that this
isn't the best way to do it? I personally think that some nice text
links, styled properly with CSS would look just as good if not better
then image maps.

  Oh, and to put it into context, it's a picture rating site so I
don't know that Blind users are going to be too much of a concern for
him since they can't see what the main part of the site is for.

Any info I could get about this would be wonderful!

Thanks everyone!

--

Jason Pruim
Raoset Inc.
Technology Manager
MQC Specialist
11287 James St
Holland, MI 49424
www.raoset.com
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Re: [WSG] Tables for product=price list

2008-08-11 Thread Ian Chamberlain
Not sure web users would care a whole lot if the heading was prices or price 
list.

Thanks for the debate chaps; I have struggled over this issue on and off for 
some time and this has helped me to define a  simple rule which works for me.

[The rule]If the list has multiple columns check because more than likely 
it should really be a table; if the table has only one column, check because it 
may be just a list.


  - Original Message - 
  From: Rob Enslin 
  To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org 
  Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 11:24 AM
  Subject: Re: [WSG] Tables for product=price list


  James, sounds like you've answered your own question/doubt then? Perhaps you 
should head your 'list' as h1Prices/h1 and not h1Price List/h1?


  2008/8/11 James Jeffery [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Disagree.

Many shopping carts on the web have product lists or summarys marked up in 
a table. When you look at it from the point of view where one column is the 
products and the other is the price, and another is VAT per product its more 
semantic to do it that way.

Again, just because something is a list does not mean it should be in a 
list. Take for example students grades. The school needs to list the name, the 
subject, the expected grade, the outcome (30/30) and a percentage (100%). You 
could easily say its a list of students grades, because it is, but you are not 
going to put that into a list because it would be wrong to.

James



On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Stuart Foulstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:

  A list is the most appropriate for a list.

  The fact that price list states list DOES mean a list should be used -
  when you use the term list that's what the user then expects it to be.

  If you don't want to use a list (for whatever pedantic reason) then don't
  call it one. If you want to use a table, call it a table.

  Not using a list when a list is appropriate is just as bad as not using a
  table when a table is appropriate.






  On Mon, August 11, 2008 9:31 am, silky wrote:
   On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 6:01 PM, James Jeffery
   [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   In the past I have tryed to avoid tables as much as possible and
   sometimes
   going as far as using lists for data that should be placed in tables.
   I am
   trying to sway away from the 'never use tables' crowd and have started
   to
   use them when they need to be used.
  
   I am working on a tattoo website and the client wants a list of pricing
   for
   tattoos and peircings. Would you say this is a good candidate for a
   table?
  
   use a table.
  
   those that say 'never use tables' are insane and often think that
   'css' and 'tables' are mutually exclusive. i ignore those people.
  
   tables are perfectly appropriate for this situation.
  
  
   Although 'price list' states list, its not to say that a list should be
   used.
  
   Any ideas.
  
   James
  
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WSG promoting standards via teaching? Re: [WSG] Positioning was Extra white line on the top of my list

2008-08-04 Thread Ian Chamberlain
I suspect there is more than a grain of truth in both David and Adams views.

If places like this are to reach the widest possible audience they must be 
accessible to all (with reason); ditto to be a usable standards debating 
forum we should be debating the finer points not spending ALL our time on 
what the experts among us may consider to be trivial.

Two suggestions;

[1]That we all take a moment to consider those who may know a little 
less than we on a specific subject and attempt to use plain English when 
replying;  thus to help others along the way.

[2]When responding to eager questioners such as Michael suggest that 
they take the conversation off the forum; but please bring it back when a 
conclusion has been reached as I suspect I lot of equally eager thread 
watchers may be keen to know the answer too.

I will now return to lurking

Regards

Ian Chamberlain
ex-Head of Web Strategy BT Global Services; now Freelancing and having a 
ball.
www.chamberlainsofharrogate.co.uk


- Original Message - 
From: David Fuller - magickweb [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 11:23 PM
Subject: RE: [WSG] Positioning was Extra white line on the top of my list


Adam...

I am sorry but I have to disagree whole heartedly... What is the standards
group, if not a place where all people can who choose to, can come and gain
guidance and learning to become STANDARDS COMPLIANT??? It would appear that
this is exactly what the group is for...

I've mentioned this in another thread, where people get all uppity about not
exactly web standards content (I think in that example it was discussing
Development Platforms...)

Regardless we are all professionals, and we are here to help, to learn and
to keep up to date, so if somebody with slightly less experience than you
asks for assistance, what's the harm in giving that assistance? It doesn't
cost you anything and you do end up with a grateful developer/designer - and
that's positive networking - again a very big plus for any business.

/endOfRant

Enjoy all :)

David Fuller
Developer
magickweb
Web:http://www.magick.com.au
Tel:   0434 728 267
Email:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Adam Martin
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 8:08 AM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] Positioning was Extra white line on the top of my list

Sorry to come across blunt - but I don't think the web standards group is
meant to be a teacher of css. Great that people on here are wanting to
learn. But there are plenty of other places dedicated to these sort of
things.
- Original Message - 
From: Michael Horowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 2:16 AM
Subject: Re: [WSG] Positioning was Extra white line on the top of my list


 In playing I've found using the relative positioning working pretty good
 for me.  Is it just a matter of personal preference what I use then?

 Thanks for the article I really haven't understood negative margins.

 Michael Horowitz
 Your Computer Consultant
 http://yourcomputerconsultant.com
 561-394-9079



 David Hucklesby wrote:
 On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:32:16 -0400, Michael Horowitz wrote:

 The live page is horowitzfamily.net.  I'm just learning positioning and
 this seemed to
 work.  The issue as mentioned earlier was transparency in my image.

 however I am just learning to do css without tables and really don't
 know what I
 should be doing for positioning.  Quite honestly in hacking around
 this worked.  I'll
 be happy to get feedback on better techniques for the future



 CSS gives you a lot of options for positioning elements on a page.
 As with all design issues, the best choice is usually a compromise,
 depending on what you want to achieve.

 My first choice for positioning elements is often to use margins -
 including negative margins on occasion. See this CommunityMX article
 for more:

   http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=b0029

 Hope this helps.

 Cordially,
 David
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Re: [WSG] html vs. html

2008-06-20 Thread Ian Chamberlain
My memory is fading fast Joe, but as I recall our first windows based web 
server (from Bob Denny's book) fixed the 8.3 limitation.

We did continue creating .htm for a while after that but only out of habit.

I can't remember the exact date but I would quess that we have been largely 
free from that limitation for well over  ten years.

Regards

Ian

- Original Message - 
From: Joseph Ortenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 9:43 AM
Subject: Re: [WSG] html vs. html


The question wasn't about keeping file extensions in URIs it was about
what file extension the file should have, which I am sure you will
agree is still required as the server needs to know if it is an html,
php, css, js, etc file doesn't it.

But I completely agree, my server can serve a file.php file from 
www.domain.com/file
  as long as don't stupidly name the file the same as a directory at
the same level.

I may be that _at one time_ the windows server needed a 8.3 filename
convention but that went out the door ages ago didn't it?

PS: the subject should really be htm vs html, no? or am I missing
something?
Joe

On Jun 20, 2008, at 08:55, Martin Kliehm wrote:

 On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Patrick H. Lauke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  wrote:
Rob Enslin wrote:
   
 I recently started noticing that our CMS system
 generated .htm pages where
 previously the system produced .html pages. I questioned the
 support staff
 and was told that the W3C deemed .html as non-standard file
 extensions (or
 rather .htm were more-widely accepted as the standard)
   
Rubbish. Absolute rubbish. Challenge the support staff to
 actually point out
where this statement from the W3C is supposed to be...

  I'd have to agree; I'm inclined to believe that .htm is a
 carryover
  from when Microsoft(TM) products (ie DOS) only supported file
  extensions up to 3 characters in length.
 
  If there is a W3C statement, I'd love to see it.

 Oh, there is. The W3C advises to avoid file extensions in URLs to
 keep future compliant. Cool URIs don't change, you know. ;)

 http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI


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Re: [WSG] html vs. html

2008-06-18 Thread Ian Chamberlain
The W3C's own site is full of four letter suffixs Rob. not that that means 
anything.

I would doubt what they are saying, but then where I came from CMS and web 
standards were on different planets.


  - Original Message - 
  From: Rob Enslin 
  To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org 
  Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 5:22 PM
  Subject: [WSG] html vs. html


  Hi peeps,

  I recently started noticing that our CMS system generated .htm pages where 
previously the system produced .html pages. I questioned the support staff and 
was told that the W3C deemed .html as non-standard file extensions (or rather 
.htm were more-widely accepted as the standard)

  Is this true? Any thoughts?

  Cheers,

  Rob

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Re: [WSG] Marking up company logo

2008-05-28 Thread Ian Chamberlain
I fumbled with this for a while Chris but decided against it on the grounds 
that h1  denotes the most important content on the page; the site ownerthe 
logo may think that his or her logo is the most important element on the page,  
I doubt any site users would agree.

I know we have to be pragmatic at times (clients pay wages etc) but I think the 
semantic argument should win this one. 

In most cases my h1s' contain much the same content as the page titles, 
bringing the added benefit that robots seem to like this approach; a point I 
make to clients if they ask when I explain how the semantic design can help 
them avoid SEO costs.

Regards

Ian


  - Original Message - 
  From: Chris Pearce 
  To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org 
  Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 8:49 AM
  Subject: [WSG] Marking up company logo


  Hi,

   

  For a few years now I've been marking up a clients company logo as a h1. I 
just wanted to get an idea of how many people actually do this compared to 
using a html image tag? I believe a h1 is more semantically correct however 
I'd be interested in seeing what other people on this list think.

   

  Cheers

   

   


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Re: [WSG] PHP Standards

2008-05-20 Thread Ian Chamberlain
Thanks for all the tips folks, very useful.

In response to Michael, I have just escaped the large corporate, global 
enterprise world that seems to fund much of the IT work done and in my 
experience most such organisations are only just now waking up to the 
concept and benefits of open source.

My ex-organisation for example tended to code either in ASP or .NET for 
small / medium scale or some flavour of Java for portals and heavy 
transaction stuff so I had no experience or libraries of PHP.

Upon my excape, pausing only to don my hopelessly optimistic hat I went 
looking for a PHP site; something similar to the sites we all use that show 
how semantic mark-up should be used; or how good quality CSS can make site 
look good.

Even poor old JavaScript thanks to gentlemen ( I use the word carelessly) 
like Jeremy Keith are busy helping our communities to play nicely with the 
DOM; which left just the back-end.

The problem is that right now unless we have one or two clearly signposted 
places where people can learn to do the right thing, young new programmers 
or  even old f***s like me will get what help they can from the net and 
libraries, as I am sure you may have noticed such sites, books and courses 
are not always of the highest quality.

Ian

(Freelancing with a grin - ex Head Of Web Strategy BT Global Services)




- Original Message - 
From: Michael Horowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 4:02 AM
Subject: Re: [WSG] PHP Standards


I am guessing that PHP is much like JavaScript in that a lot of what is
floating about is either poor or pooh the result of all the good
programmes stending their time on ASP or J2EE

Why woul you think the good programmers spend their time and ASP or J2EE?

Michael Horowitz
Your Computer Consultant
http://yourcomputerconsultant.com
561-394-9079



Designer wrote:
 I think that it's basically your responsibility Ian, in that there are
 many sources of snippets available and if you use them you just
 validate the generated code and put right what is wrong in the php.
 Then, you check for best practice too . . .

 Bob



 Ian Chamberlain wrote:
 Fingers crossed this is not too far off topic; being a newby to PHP;
 any clues where I can find how-to's, snippets, libraries or even
 application suites built from PHP that are built to a good minimum
 standard please.

 I am guessing that PHP is much like JavaScript in that a lot of what
 is floating about is either poor or pooh the result of all the good
 programmes stending their time on ASP or J2EE.

 Thanks

 Ian


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[WSG] PHP Standards

2008-05-16 Thread Ian Chamberlain
Fingers crossed this is not too far off topic; being a newby to PHP; any 
clues where I can find how-to's, snippets, libraries or even application 
suites built from PHP that are built to a good minimum standard please.

I am guessing that PHP is much like JavaScript in that a lot of what is 
floating about is either poor or pooh the result of all the good programmes 
stending their time on ASP or J2EE.

Thanks

Ian 



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Re: [WSG] The Problem of adjacent links

2008-05-08 Thread Ian Chamberlain
I tend to use a good old unordered list for such things Bob.

- Original Message - 
From: Designer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:03 AM
Subject: [WSG] The Problem of adjacent links


I have run into a problem with having two adjacent links at the top of a 
page. The WAI validator complains:

10.5 Until user agents (including assistive technologies) render 
adjacent links distinctly, include non-link, printable characters 
(surrounded by spaces) between adjacent links. [Priority 3]

What is the current thinking on this? How can I do this WITHOUT putting 
any characters in there? I don't emwant/em any characters in there! 
  I have tried using:

div id=sitelink
 p
   [a href=sitemap.htmlSite Map/a]
   [a href=../../core/noticeboard.htmlHome/a]
 /p
   /div

and that validates WAI, but I hate the appearance of it. I could set the 
(non a:) text colour to be the same as the background, but that's a 
fiddle I want to avoid.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Thanks,

Bob





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Re: [WSG] Dreamweaver CS3

2008-04-04 Thread Ian Chamberlain
James, why not take advantage of the free 30 trial of Dreamweaver?

  - Original Message - 
  From: James Jeffery 
  To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org 
  Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 12:19 PM
  Subject: [WSG] Dreamweaver CS3


  I've been thinking about buying the new version of Photoshop and Illustrator, 
as i just purchased a new dual core iMac. Currently i use BBEdit but im 
thinking about switching to Dreamweaver as i might aswell purchase the creative 
suite. Is the new dreamweaver any good for us developers?

  This may not seem related to web standards but i feel it does because back 
when i used dreamweaver - it was the days when it bloated out your code and 
caused friction for many developers.

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Re: [WSG] s2m Digital- Mid Weight Designer required!

2007-11-01 Thread Ian Chamberlain
Jeremy, is your client really looking for pixel perfection 

I note you are also looking for a person who is passionate and has a thorough 
understanding of web design; such a person may have difficulty with pixel 
perfection.





- Original Message - 
  From: Jeremy Champion 
  To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org 
  Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 7:26 AM
  Subject: [WSG] s2m Digital- Mid Weight Designer required!


  Company: s2m Digital 
  Job Title: Mid weight Web Designer (3-5 years experience)- leading Publisher! 
  Description: My client is a large magazine publisher with a diverse group of 
leading titles. 

  The designer will be responsible for creating dynamic, visually compelling 
and functional website interface as well as advertising designs across their 
portfolio. They must have the ability to create pixel perfect front-end 
designs from initial concept to finished Photoshop (or similar) screens. 

  Responsibilities: 

  . Designing usable, accessible interfaces, websites and user experiences for 
the clients' sites 
  . Working with sales and editorial teams to develop design solutions that 
deliver business and corporate objectives and fulfill user needs 
  . Assisting with day-to-day promotional materials for website maintenance 
  . Working with technical colleagues to ensure appropriate delivery of design 
solutions; maximizing accessibility and usability of products and services 

  Essential criteria: 

  . A thorough understanding of web design, its forms, functions and unique 
constraints is essential 
  . Must have a genuine passion for web design 
  . A working knowledge of the principles of user interaction design and 
information architecture will be highly regarded as well as experience 
designing for CSS / .NET 
  . First-rate skills in Photoshop, Image Ready and Illustrator. Familiarity 
with In Design is an advantage. 
  . Must have a strong portfolio of consumer websites - able to interpret 
existing magazines online. Understanding of the breadth of brands represented 
under the masthead, and the design aesthetic necessary for each brand. 
  . Experience designing for mobile, understanding of Flash + action scripting 
or digital video editing and streaming video for the web will be highly 
regarded but not essential

   

  Cheers

   

  Jeremy Champion

  Talent Broker

   

   

  s2m Digital

  s2m Executive

  s2m Sales and Marketing

   

  www.s2m.com.au 

   

  Level 7, 280 George Street

  Sydney NSW 2000

   

  Ph: +61 2 9228 9000 

  Fax: +61 2 9228 9090 

  Mobile: 0433 249 725

   

  IF CANDIDATE OVERVIEWS OR RESUMES ARE ATTACHED PLEASE NOTE THAT: 

  By using any information in this document you agree to be bound by the 
standard terms and conditions of s2m Executive Pty. Ltd. You agree not to 
employ or arrange employment of candidates supplied in this document without 
first entering into a contractual agreement with s2m Executive Pty. Ltd. You 
further agree not to divulge any information contained in this document to any 
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Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread Ian Chamberlain
I must be having a stupid attack as I can't find anywhere on the site where 
I can register and then comment.

As for the left / right -  Accessibility/ Freedom agrument (it doesn't 
deserve to be called a debate) it leaves me with the feeling that I would 
not wish to be trapped in a lift (elevator) or even a medium sized country 
with most of these people.

All that said; can anybody help me understand where the idea that 
accessibility costs money comes from?

Agreed, updating an existing site may cost money, however creating a clean 
semantic and accessibile site can be done at the same price as a nasty old 
site and if we all take the semantic thing to heart who knows they should be 
less expensive than todays sites.

The final puzzle is quite why Target are happy to spend more than they 
should simply to discriminate against a significant proportion of their 
potential market.

Seems plain dumb to me.


- Original Message - 
From: Mark Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 11:47 PM
Subject: Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard


Julie Romanowski wrote:
 I don't know how many of you are familiar with Michelle Malkin. She
 posted about the Target lawsuit today, and although she is an
 intelligent woman, she doesn't have a clue when it comes to web
 accessibility.


Malkin doesn't have much of a clue, full stop. She is an American
right-wing nut-bar, slightly less offensive than Ann Coulter. So are the
people who regularly comment on her blog.

 There also seems to be a lot of ignorance among the commenters and I
 would appreciate it if some our WSG members can help to set these people
 straight.

Pearls before swine, They don't WANT to see, because it might require
them to do something that doesn't immediately put dollars in their pockets.


 Please visit Michelle Malkin's site and post your comments -
 http://michellemalkin.com/2007/10/03/blind-shoppers-get-green-light-to-s
 ue-target-over-website/.

hmmm... I can't help wondering if this is a troll in itself to get more
people to visit the site and raise a controversy (sensible patriotic
'Merkins versus hippie scumbags!! Film at 11!). Probably not but that's
the level of suspicion the left/right battle in the US draws from either
side.

mark


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