Re: [WSG] Intro and first question

2005-01-05 Thread Mordechai Peller
Chris Moncus wrote: In looking over the W3C's documentation and such I got the hang of it and have been using the Bobby Validator for Section 508 validation ( http://bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/html/en/index.jsp ). I want to make sure that I am doing things correctly though. Could any of you

Re: [WSG] Intro and first question

2005-01-05 Thread David R
Mordechai Peller wrote: The fact is the onclick is misnamed; a more accurate name would be onactivate since it's triggered by both the mouse and keyboard. Indeed, considering the W3C's push of XHTML as a truly platform agnostic system. -- -David R

Re: [WSG] Intro and first question

2005-01-05 Thread Chris Gandolfo
I've always used the validator at http://www.contentquality.com/ over Bobby. I like the way it breaks things down for you. On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 18:55:01 +, David R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mordechai Peller wrote: The fact is the onclick is misnamed; a more accurate name would be

Re: [WSG] Intro and first question

2005-01-05 Thread heretic
hi, I haven't spent a lot of time worrying about the disabled or impaired users of my projects because of the youth-focussed intent of them. Just a thought on demographics: there are plenty of young people with relevant disabilities. Plus there are people with technological disadvantages or

Re: [WSG] Intro and first question

2005-01-05 Thread Chris Moncus
Looking back, that looks like I basically said I made the site so old people couldn't use it. I still wrote so that screen readers had an easy time and other major things to do. What I meant is that I wasn't intent on following every recommendation for accessibility because of the (what I

Re: [WSG] Intro and first question

2005-01-05 Thread Andrew Krespanis
Aaah, the accessibility validators chestnut... I'm surprised Patrick and Derek and haven't dropped in on this thread yet ;) Unfortunately machines can't check for accessiblity. Really, they can't. Until they do checks like rendering pages and making sure link targets aren't incredibly small, (eg:

[WSG] Intro and first question

2005-01-03 Thread Chris Moncus
First, thanks for the community support of standards. Too many developers I know have not seen the light, so to say, of standards. I look forward to what I can both learn and share with you guys ( generic, includes females :D ). Now, for my question: I haven't spent a lot of time worrying