John
I like it, your attention to standards with an easy check link on the
page footer. Sorry not much time for a full review too much to do, my
site always needs attention, a great start. A few things to consider
accessibility for bots and page rank as well as well as disability
discrimination legal compliance?
In the keywords there are terms which are not repeated on the page.
Instead of a search function you might get a better page rank if you
had links to the major pages for each maker and furniture type, list
each maker's name and the furniture type as a static text link on the
page. The search engine list will be invisible to ooooggglee. Google et
al will not rate keywords highly if there is little actual page
content, related to those words unless a GOD with a pagerank of 10
links to your page.
Maybe the top javascript array could be linked to, probably not a worry
to most search engines but junks up the page with script. So put the
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--var arrOptions = new Array();array in an external text file and
link to it as you have done with <script src="/components/general.js"
type="text/javascript" ></script>
Some other meta tags to consider
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow" />
<meta name="aurhor"content="Devon" />
<meta name="language" content="en-uk" />
<meta name="publisher" content="Devon" />
<meta name="Date.Modified" content="Tue, 13 Feb 2007" />
<meta name="revisit-after" content="14 Days" />
<link rel="Accessibility" href="Access/index.html" /> An Accessibility
statement if you want to go the whole hog or Chippendale
A skip navigation option at the very top of the page with keyboad
shortcut and tab index for non mouse users.
<p class="SkipNav">
<a title="Skip the Menu and go straight to the start of the page
Access Key Ctrl+0" href="#skipnav" name="Top" accesskey="0"
tabindex="1">SkipNav</a>
</p>
Goes straight to named text <a name="skipnav">The Devon Furniture
Makers Association was formed to promote...</a>
If you are going to use a form you can make it accessible with
fieldset, legend and label eg from my search page
<fieldset>
<legend>Search the web with Yahoo</legend>
<p>
<label for="Yahoosearch">Yahoo</label>
<br />
<input type="hidden" class="noshow" name="dist" value="yahootogo" />
<input name="p" id="Yahoosearch" value="" tabindex="54"
style="width:320px" />
<input type="submit" value="Search" title="Search the web with Yahoo"
style="width:60px" />
</p>
</fieldset>
</form>
I reckon you should consider dropping the drop down menu just for
pagerank and accessibility and put in static links?
With links it is probably better to put in a title for each one,
shortcut and tab are easy to add screen reads will ignore title but it
gives users more info on what links are about. eg
<a href="commissioning.php"title="Our commissioning service for custom
new furniture"tabindex="24" accesskey="0">Commissioning</a></li>
Sorry I like your effort so much I got carried away but must go and lie
down on my Chesterfield:-)
Good luck John, I will look forward to dropping in to see what you have
done.
Tim
On 13/02/2007, at 9:34 PM, John 'Max' Maxwell wrote:
Good Morning All,
Just gone live with this and have done all my valid checks etc but if
anyone has a second I would really appreciate any feedback on
accessibility and usability:
www.devonfurnituremakers.org.uk
Also – if anyone on here can provide a top to bottom accessibility
report then please contact me. I am interested in a full assessment of
the site pointing out what issues will affect what user groups and why
and what can be done to address the issues.
Thanks,
Max.
www.thepigfarmer.co.uk
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