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----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Graeme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: Section 508
> I'm bringing this over from CF-Talk since it's mostly OT and I'm
satisfying
> 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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