Mike; I think the key things about accessibility statements is to include: What measures have you added to aid accessibility, and HOW do they help the users (with appropriate how-to use information), but almost as important, but often left out, is to write what *isn't* accessible about your site, and why, and possibly offer some alternative methods of accessing the information. I'd also say it helps to break up your statement into sections, rather than a long spiel.
I read a good article about it somewhere, but I'll be darned if I can find the stupid thing now! It may have been on 456. :) Frances Berriman http://www.fberriman.com -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 June 2006 14:37 To: [email protected] Subject: digest for [email protected] From: "Darren Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 15:37:06 +1200 Subject: Re: [WSG] Accessibility statement On 6/16/06, Mike Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have opinions on what's thought good practice for > accessibility statements nowadays? I came accross the Nature.com's accessibility statement it very good! Their site is web standard based and has a good focus on accessibility. I quite like the way they've done it. http://www.nature.com/common/accessibility_statement.html Cheers D From: "White Ash" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 10:46:43 -0500 Subject: Mystery Gap in IE Hello! Can anyone tell me why in FF, this website looks fine, but in IE, there is a gap above the #footer div on some but not all the pages? I have compared the code, and I can't see why the gap is occasionally occurring. http://rortax.com/futurehomepage.shtml (gap occurs) http://rortax.com/fees.shtml (no gap) http://rortax.com/css/styles_02.css (css) Thanks for your help! White Ash [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.white-ash.com/> www.White-Ash.com From: Emily Smit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 09:33:08 -0700 Subject: Re: recycling Sorry, Susan. -- Emily Smit Special Projects Coordinator International Dark-Sky Association From: David Laakso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 15:03:19 -0400 Subject: Re: [WSG] Mystery Gap in IE White Ash wrote: > > Hello! > > Can anyone tell me why in FF, this website looks fine, but in IE, > there is a gap above the #footer div on some but not all the pages? > Probably because neither FF nor Opera/9.0b2 are rendering this image on any page: #content { background: #fff bottom no-repeat url(../images/rainbowborder.gif) right; } while IE recovers the CSS error. Re-set to: background: #fff url(rainbowborder.gif) bottom right no-repeat; and Opera, Moz , FF /may/ be happier. > > but in IE, there is a gap above the #footer div on some but not all > the pages? I have compared the code, and I cant see why the gap is > occasionally occurring. > When you correct the above error, you'll get the gap on all pages in all browsers. Change-- from: #footer { margin: 0 auto 0 auto; } to: #footer { margin: -20px auto 0 auto; } The above closed the gap on a *local file.* > > I have compared the code, and I cant see why the gap is occasionally > occurring. > > http://rortax.com/futurehomepage.shtml (gap occurs) > > http://rortax.com/fees.shtml (no gap) > > http://rortax.com/css/styles_02.css (css) > > Thanks for your help! > Regards, ~dL PS Validate the markup. You have used the same id more than once on the same page. From: "White Ash" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 16:36:49 -0500 Subject: Re: [WSG] Mystery Gap in IE Thanks David Laakso for responding. dL said: Re-set to: background: #fff url(rainbowborder.gif) bottom right no-repeat; WA says: I tried this, and it had no effect whatsoever. dL said: ". FF /may/ be happier." WA says: FF never had the problem. Therefore this: dL said: Change-- from: #footer { margin: 0 auto 0 auto; } to: #footer { margin: -20px auto 0 auto; } The above closed the gap on a *local file.* WA says: This was a disaster, as then the problem appeared to be fixed in IE, but there were new probs in FF. With more mucking around, I figured out that it was a problem with the #quote div, so now it is working in all browsers. And the gap on one page only at the very bottom of the page was happening because there wasn't enough text to push it all the way down. Now I've got a new issue: Again, all's well in FF. In IE, however, if you look at http://rortax.com/quorum.shtml, the whole paragraph under "Quorum Discount" does not show. It flickers on a Refresh and then goes away. I can click and drag over the hidden text to see it, and click away from it to see it stay. As soon as I approach the navbar, it disappears again. It's easy to get some play too wherein I see diamond-shaped colored bullets that appear and then disappear as soon as I roll over a navbar item. Any ideas on how to address this flaky rendering issue would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! White Ash http://rortax.com/quorum.shtml http://rortax.com/futurehomepage.shtml http://rortax.com/css/styles_02.css From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gunlaug_S=F8rtun?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 01:20:58 +0200 Subject: Re: [WSG] Mystery Gap in IE White Ash wrote: > ... if you look at http://rortax.com/quorum.shtml, the whole > paragraph under "Quorum Discount" does not show. It flickers on a > Refresh and then goes away. I can click and drag over the hidden text > to see it, and click away from it to see it stay. As soon as I > approach the navbar, it disappears again. Add 'position: relative;' to the disappearing paragraph. 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