a curiosity.
Can you tell me if you can scroll the page in IE with your keyboard?
http://www.section508.gov
I can't but a coworker can. We're both running the same version of IE.
-Kevin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Graeme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: Section 508
> <cf_darth>
> The irony is strong in this one.
> </cf_darth>
>
> Two things to note:
>
> 1. It's caused by the unnecessary "overflow: auto" on the body in their
CSS.
> 2. Even though it may cause an accessibility problem, it's not technically
> broken by 508 guidelines. Nothing in 508 requires support for keyboard
> navigation.
>
> -Kevin
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Vernon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 1:39 PM
> Subject: RE: Section 508
>
>
> > Being from the UK, I had no idea what Section 508 stood for so a quick
> > google took me to the Section508.gov site.... so now I know
> >
> > Now I like to scoll down pages using the keyboard either with the
up/down
> > arrows or the page up/down keys.... Is it just me or do they not work on
> > this site???? Mouse based scrolling works a treat!
> >
> > I've verified this to be the case on two separate installations of IE
and
> > also checked the same instances of IE on other web-sites... Keyboard
> > navigation is working fine..... This does not bode well for an
> accessibility
> > focused web-site!!! Incidentally, tabbing through links on the site
works
> > fine...
> >
> > The summary breakdown of the standards can be found here....
> >
> > http://www.section508.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Content
> > <http://www.section508.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Content&ID=11> &ID=11
> >
> > Hope you have a wheel mouse!
> >
> > Further links can be found here....
> >
> > http://www.section508.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Content
> > <http://www.section508.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Content&ID=131> &ID=131
> >
> > Paul
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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