On 06/05/19 10:44 (GMT-0400) Ryan Moore apparently typed: > David Laakso wrote Friday, May 19, 2006 11:10 AM
> Ryan Moore wrote: >> Hi guys, wanted to do a site check for www.advantagecourier.ca > Just a very fast, and rather cursory check, Ryan. A couple of things > stand out, first that it is a nice, strong, visual presentation. In use, > it /may/ be bit too fragile. Would it advantageous to bring the > content-text up to default(the navigation seems more important than the > content), unlock the frozen fonts for the 'evil one,' and release the > restraints causing the nav breaking, and text overlapping/breaking on > zoom? You may want to view your page with images disabled. A site check > would not be complete without some bozo telling you that you've got a > couple of really trivial errors. > Thanks David. Where would you recommend me starting? Would you suggest that > the design is not very standards friendly or flexible I guess would be the > better way to put it? Rigid is an appropriate description. Such designs leave many if not most users of high resolution displays and users with vision below the mean in big trouble. It's all too common on the web, even from those who claim to know accessibility: http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/pxmonkeys.html IE users' text resizer widget can't make your tiny px sized text bigger: http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/SS/ryanmo2.png On high resolution displays, your text is a tiny fraction of the UI font size: http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/SS/ryanmo1.jpg. That pretty much defines inaccessible as it applies to non-blind visitors. Also, your fixed container sizes don't permit zoom to work, causing overlapping and disappearing text and two-word long lines when enough zoom to make the text big enough to read is attempted. All the px sizing needs to be disposed of. Here are a few pages where nothing is sized in in px: http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/Sites/dlviolin.html http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/indexx.html http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/SS/bbcSS.html Give them a workout with various zoom/minimum/default size levels and viewport sizes, particularly those employed on widescreen displays 1280x800 and higher. Give a read on http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dao/, and then go to work removing those awful px things from your brain and from your CSS. They aren't usually necessary in this fluid medium we call the WWW. -- "All have sinned & fall short of the glory of God." Romans 3:23 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
