On 23/06/2006, at 5:02 AM, John S. Britsios wrote:
1. the tab order of my homepage is horrible
tab order looks OK to me, although the main navbar doesn't indicate
focus to me in Safari 2.0. As a general rule of thumb don't use
tabindex unless you have a table based layout where the source order
makes no sense.
2. use "back to top" links.
Don't use back to top links, they only duplicate functionality (that
should be) provided by the OS/browser/device.
3. you should have a glossary for <acronym>/<abbr>-tags, because
the title is only visible, if you use a mouse.
I had an interesting conversation about this recently. Don't the abbr/
acronym defeat the purpose of abbr/acronyms for screen reader users?
In english abbrs should be expanded in full for the first occurance,
and thereafter only presented in the abbreviated form. Common
abbreviations should most probably not be marked up in any special
way (e.g. radar, nasa, html, css). abbr/acromyn elements might be
handy hooks for aural CSS styles one day.
The point about titles depends on the verbosity settings for screen
readers, but is valid for keyboard only use.
4. making a print preview, the <abbr>-tag was underlined on the
page and that I should remove this.
Underlined text should be reserved for links, and I think this should
extend to the printed version of a web page.
kind regards
Terrence Wood
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