Re: # Re: [WSG] Beta Testers Needed for BCAT

2009-01-11 Thread Simon Pascal Klein
On 11/01/2009, at 4:08 PM, James Ducker wrote: Ultimately teachers should aim to teach the skills that are required of students entering the industry. The TAFE students I tutor in Sydney are being taught XHTML, XML, CSS table-free layouts, and so on, so not a bad start. The JavaScript

[WSG] Title attribute

2009-01-11 Thread Hayden's Harness Attachment
I was wondering how valuible th Title attribute is. I just visited http://www.google.com/analytics/ and see they do not use a href= title=/a and the new code I uploaded for an international nonprofit. Apperantly this code I uploaded is HTML and cSS valid. I was taught to do a href= title=/a.

RE: [WSG] Title attribute

2009-01-11 Thread Jens-Uwe Korff
I was wondering how valuable the Title attribute is Use the 'title' attribute when the link text needs to be short and doesn't convey all a user needs to know, eg. a href=... title=Latest News from InTheSticksLocal news/a. In this case you also add a bit of SEO. I found that, contrary to what I

Re: [WSG] Title attribute

2009-01-11 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
On 12/1/09 00:00, Jens-Uwe Korff wrote: I found that, contrary to what I believed previously, this is not required for assistive technologies, ie. screenreaders. They usually pick up the anchor text well.

Re: [WSG] Title attribute

2009-01-11 Thread Hayden's Harness Attachment
Jens I found that, contrary to what I believed previously, this is not required for assistive technologies, ie. screenreaders. They usually pick up the anchor text well. Anchor text? What is anchor text? I thought the Title attribute was the anchor text. Angus MacKinnon Infoforce Services

Re: [WSG] Title attribute

2009-01-11 Thread Christian Montoya
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Hayden's Harness Attachment vig...@gmail.com wrote: Jens I found that, contrary to what I believed previously, this is not required for assistive technologies, ie. screenreaders. They usually pick up the anchor text well. Anchor text? What is anchor text? I

Re: [WSG] Title attribute

2009-01-11 Thread Christian Snodgrass
Just another note: EVERY element has a title attribute, not just the anchor attribute. Title is one of those basic properties like id and name. It doesn't have any unique use for any specific element, it just allows you to provide a bit more information for the element (which is usually

[WSG] css Help Please

2009-01-11 Thread Marvin Hunkin
Hi. well vallidated my html and it passed the vallidation. got three errors in css. not sure why, how do i fix them. and instead of the style for text, tried using a id to refrence that in the style sheet, but said no duplication of the id tag, so did not want the style = text / say in my id

Re: [WSG] Title attribute

2009-01-11 Thread Hassan Schroeder
Christian Snodgrass wrote: Just another note: EVERY element has a title attribute Uh, not exactly, at least according to http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/index/attributes.html FWIW, -- Hassan Schroeder - has...@webtuitive.com Webtuitive Design === (+1) 408-621-3445

[WSG] Frames/iFrames [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-01-11 Thread Mary-Anne . Nayler
Hi, I am just wondering what is the general consensus on the use of Frames or iFrames these days. WCAG2.0 is not terribly clear on whether we should or shouldn't be using them. I understand there are usability issues as well as problems with Search Engines. I have a client that seems determined