Re: [WSG] SEO vs. Accessibility

2009-05-27 Thread Karl Lurman
Just as a side note, instead of doing a -px, try using -999em... In most cases, you can probably even get away with -99em. This has two advantages: 1) Its a few less characters in your CSS 2) If the user increases their font size, there is a chance that the thing you are hiding might start to

Re: [WSG] valid meta tags

2009-05-27 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
On 26/5/09 18:39, designer wrote: Solved it! meta http-equiv=Content-Language content=EN/ should be meta name=language content=en / On the whole, this sounds more like a bug in the validator you're using. The first snippet is correct; the second snippet has no specification and no

Re: [WSG] SEO vs. Accessibility

2009-05-27 Thread James Ellis
On Wed, 27 May 2009 12:04:48 pm Chris Dimmock wrote: We can flag text that appears to be hidden using CSS at Google. To date we have not algorithmically removed sites for doing that. We try hard to avoid throwing babies out with bathwater. MattCutts at Oct 21 2005 - 02:09 That was nearly 4

RE: [WSG] SEO vs. Accessibility

2009-05-27 Thread Hargreaves, Michael
If I have a css sprite that needs an alt text I'll position it behind the image. My main reason for doing this has nothing to do with SEO though. With images off there is no context to what would've been rendered if images were on. In my experience you really only need to use this (or the text

RE: [WSG] SEO vs. Accessibility

2009-05-27 Thread Hargreaves, Michael
If I have a css sprite that needs an alt text I'll position it behind the image. My main reason for doing this has nothing to do with SEO though. With images off there is no context to what would've been rendered if images were on. In my experience you really only need to use this (or the text

Re: [WSG] valid meta tags

2009-05-27 Thread designer
Hi James, - Original Message - --- From: James Ducker To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 1:03 AM Subject: Re: [WSG] valid meta tags Hm, out of curiosity, what validator were you using? - James

[WSG] Auto-responder

2009-05-27 Thread jcarl...@accessiblewebstudio.com
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Re: [WSG] encounter the first IE8 bug

2009-05-27 Thread Сергей Кириченко
do not set left to search_autocomplete 2009/5/27 Essential eBiz Solutions ad...@essentialebizsolutions.net: Ah the joys of Magento. The only thing I can think off is to use a separate style sheet for IE8, shouldn't be too big a file as IE8 seems to render a lot of stuff similar to FireFox.

RE: [WSG] SEO vs. Accessibility

2009-05-27 Thread Ted Drake
Try Thierry Koblentz's technique that fixes a lot of these issues. http://tjkdesign.com/articles/tip.asp Ted -Original Message- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Hargreaves, Michael Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 6:07 AM To:

Re: [WSG] valid meta tags

2009-05-27 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
On 27/5/09 10:54, designer wrote: I'm using the one included with Chris Pederick's developer toolbar for Firefox (3), which is actually www.cynthiasays.com. It fails this: meta http-equiv=Content-Language content=EN/ but not this: meta name=language content=en / Try it for yourself. Is this

Re: [WSG] encounter the first IE8 bug

2009-05-27 Thread tee
On May 27, 2009, at 4:18 AM, Сергей Кириченко wrote: do not set left to search_autocomplete I am sorry, but there isn't 'left' declared. I can use margin-left:-200px /* just a guess */ to pull it back and this is the only workaround I could fine but I am not convinced this is a