A few things I noticed (being ultra-critical perhaps at this stage): First three links on the page are invisible skip links that don't show up, even on focus, plus there's another hidden link to accesskey definitions after the "accessibility help" link.
On the separate "modules", it's initially confusing that clicking on the expand/contract triangle and clicking on the actual heading itself has different effects. I'd have expected clicking on a heading to trigger the expand/contract, not take me to that particular section on the site (maybe it's just me). The design itself is not very subtle...the gradients are just a bit too heavy and give a "bumpy" appearance. The gradient in the chunky footer makes the text towards the bottom of the box (e.g. "Healthy living, parenting...") a bit hard to read, as the contrast is far too low. Search box has no LABEL, but a title attribute of "searchfield". They could have wrapped the text in the legend of the fieldset as an actual label, perhaps <legend><label for="searchfield">Search</label></legend> or just have a hidden (positioned off-screen) label for it (maybe with "search terms" as label text). Just navigating by keyboard and hitting "Reset homepage" brings up the lightbox-style confirm/cancel dialog. However, the focus isn't set to this box, to tabbing simply cycles through the *whole* page's links (behind the dimmed "fog of war") before finally getting focus on the actual confirm/cancel buttons. Speaking of buttons, confirm/cancel, reset homepage, save changes, cancel, edit etc should possibly be actual BUTTON elements, not regular A links (for the purists concerned with the distinction between links "going somewhere" and buttons "performing an action"). Hitting the "edit" buttons when a module is collapsed has no apparent effect, in which case they should remain hidden until expanded. ________________________________ Patrick H. Lauke Web Editor Enterprise & Development University of Salford Room 113, Faraday House Salford, Greater Manchester M5 4WT UK T +44 (0) 161 295 4779 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.salford.ac.uk A GREATER MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
