Re: [WSG] Image with borders due to Anchor tag

2009-01-17 Thread Simon Moss
Isn't it because the img tag when within an anchor tag will by default show a blue border around it - behaviour from the days before css? Separate behaviour from the anchor tag itself - a special instance of the img tag itself. So if you're wondering why - well - because of history? (I never

Re: [WSG] Software to read aloud web pages (targetted at literacy issues not vision issues)

2008-04-04 Thread Simon Moss
Rebecca Cox wrote: Someone's asked me about software that will read aloud from a web page, in a user friendly way Hi Rebecca - I don't know if you're aware of the Voice facility in Opera 9 - you have to enable Voice Controlled browsing in the preferences which means you download a 10.5 MB

Re: [WSG] Strange CSS problem

2007-12-16 Thread Simon Moss
Michael Horowitz wrote: Interesting as Andrew pointed out the issue does not occur is IE 6. I have it only occur in IE 7 which would make it a new IE bug. The frustrating part of typepad is I cannot delete the original css declaration only overwrite it with the new one. I'm also new to

Re: [WSG] introducing a prompt to download or open a pdf

2007-10-16 Thread Simon Moss
They certainly don't make it easy to find - http://www.adobe.com/misc/linking.html#pdficon Someone suggested using a PDF icon. Is this something you can get from adobe? Simon *** List Guidelines:

Re: [WSG] Cost of Accessibility

2007-10-08 Thread Simon Moss
Designer wrote: Andrew Maben wrote: But as to the cost of compliant, accessible HTML, does anyone *not* find it quicker and easier (and hence cheaper) to write than tag soup? Recently, his son got involved and mailed me to say that a friend of his was doing it for nothing and he could do it

Re: [WSG] question on 'logical tab order'

2007-09-22 Thread Simon Moss
You shall able to navigate this site using tab features with your keyboards comfortably. Logical tab orders are taken into account to prevent confusion; :active and :focus pseudo classes are used so that links and form items are highlighted when they are 'tabbed to'. [1] Hi Tee, I would

Re: [WSG] Safari now on Windows

2007-06-12 Thread Simon Moss
I've just downloaded Safari 3.0 (522.11.3) and I'm running it on Win XP Pro SP2 and have to say I haven't experienced any problems so far (touch wood). The fonts are fine, and I even used the bug report button - it took a long time, but didn't crash as others are reporting. FWIW I have

Re: [WSG] ie positioning help needed

2007-06-02 Thread Simon Moss
Hi Kevin, It's still acting up in IE7 (and IE6 appears to have width problems with the #header div which is throwing everything out)... In IE7 it seems to be reading the position relative from where the #gradient div is in the code - that is, if you set top to 0, it aligns with the

Re: [WSG] ie positioning help needed

2007-06-02 Thread Simon Moss
It still doesn't work - it's doing the same thing, but from directly beneath the text instead of from directly beneath the wrapper. I haven't used position:relative much myself, so can't cast any light on why IE is behaving differently. Given that it is treating position:relative

Re: [WSG] target and accessibility

2007-03-10 Thread Simon Moss
In fact there is a let-out clause - http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/#link-text - you *can* use the same text for different links, providing you use unique title text for each one... (still irritating - but as you say - there is a point there...) Simon www.simonmoss.co.uk That's