RE: [WSG] Font-size inheritance issue?

2008-10-25 Thread Elizabeth Spiegel
Hi Lyn

Won't guarantee this is the source of your woes, but on the Operations page,
the h2OPERATIONS isn't closed. Another couple of minor points - I'd
suggest adjusting the line spacing on your lis - in Firefox they look
crowded by comparison with the para above; I'd also suggest using spaced
endashes (#8211;) rather than hyphens where appropriate e.g. dividing the
Latin and common names of the weeds illustrated.


Elizabeth Spiegel
Web editing
 
0409 986 158
GPO Box 729, Hobart TAS 7001
www.spiegelweb.com.au




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Sent: Saturday, 25 October 2008 1:00 PM
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Subject: [WSG] Font-size inheritance issue?

Good morning

http://www.westernwebdesign.com.au/EWAN/index.html

Two pages uploaded: Home and Operation. Does anyone know why the font-size
(specified in css -  body  80%) is different on these two pages?  Home is
the correct one, but it is bigger on the second page and the succeeding page
(not uploaded).

Thanks!

Lyn

www.westernwebdesign
Perth, Western Australia

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Re: [WSG] Font-size inheritance issue?

2008-10-25 Thread Lynette Smith

Hi Elizabeth.

Won't guarantee this is the source of your woes, but on the Operations page,
the h2OPERATIONS isn't closed.

Yes - how embarrassing!  Can't believe I did that!

 Another couple of minor points - I'd
suggest adjusting the line spacing on your lis - in Firefox they look
crowded by comparison with the para above; I'd also suggest using spaced
endashes (#8211;) rather than hyphens where appropriate e.g. dividing the
Latin and common names of the weeds illustrated.
  

Thanks for the tips - much appreciate it.

Kind regards

Lyn

www.westernwebdesign.com.au
Perth, Western Australia


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[WSG] Re: Searching for standards information

2008-10-25 Thread Benedict Wyss
And then the clouds parted...

http://webpublishing.agimo.gov.au/

If anyone wants to add then please do so but shall consider this closed.

Cheers,

On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 8:31 PM, Benedict Wyss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi all,

 I am looking for any and all links to comprehensive listings of:

1. Australian Government Industry Best Practices
2. Australian Government Standards (Privacy, Accessibility and
Usability)

 I have been googling for a while and coming up with bunk.

 All assistance welcomed.

 Thanks,

 Ben



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Re: [WSG] Re: Searching for standards information

2008-10-25 Thread Andrew Boyd
Ben,

AGIMO publishes guidelines that cover some of what you asked for - it is up
to individual organisations as to which guidelines they follow and how far -
it shouldn't be that way but it is. Each organisation that I've worked in
over the last 25 years in Government has had their own writing standards -
and since there has been a web, their own web
content/usability/accessibility standards in one form or another. Most are
compliant in some way or another with WCAG 1.0 - but this is based on
interpretation, and these interpretations vary between organisations.

Privacy is looked after by the Australian Privacy Commissioner (
http://www.privacy.gov.au/).

An study of the Australian Government web standards environment is not
complete without examining the role of the Australian Human Rights
Commission (http://www.hreoc.gov.au). One of the Commissioners, Graeme
Innes, has put the lot of us on notice - he will (to use his words) name
and shame organisations that have inaccessible sites. He has started this
already.

Cheers, Andrew


On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 8:44 PM, Benedict Wyss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 And then the clouds parted...

 http://webpublishing.agimo.gov.au/

 If anyone wants to add then please do so but shall consider this closed.

 Cheers,


 On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 8:31 PM, Benedict Wyss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi all,

 I am looking for any and all links to comprehensive listings of:

1. Australian Government Industry Best Practices
2. Australian Government Standards (Privacy, Accessibility and
Usability)

 I have been googling for a while and coming up with bunk.

 All assistance welcomed.

 Thanks,

 Ben



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[WSG] Searching for standards information

2008-10-25 Thread Benedict Wyss
Hi all,

I am looking for any and all links to comprehensive listings of:

   1. Australian Government Industry Best Practices
   2. Australian Government Standards (Privacy, Accessibility and Usability)

I have been googling for a while and coming up with bunk.

All assistance welcomed.

Thanks,

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Re: [WSG] Re: Searching for standards information

2008-10-25 Thread Benedict Wyss
Hi Andrew,

First off..good reply.

I like the last paragraph re human rights. Even though I don't need to be
forced to be compliant to standards as I have a conscience but (and excuse
my ignorance) when has being able to access the internet a human right. I
thought it was the domain of things like security, sustenance and protection
from the elements. I am further thinking that in order to obtain justifiable
rights the movement inevitably swings heavily to the right/left in an
attempt to end up in the middle ground.

I am interested in hearing peoples thoughts on this one. Is it a human right
or...?

[disclosure: no offense intended]

Cheers,


On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 9:55 PM, Andrew Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Ben,

 AGIMO publishes guidelines that cover some of what you asked for - it is up
 to individual organisations as to which guidelines they follow and how far -
 it shouldn't be that way but it is. Each organisation that I've worked in
 over the last 25 years in Government has had their own writing standards -
 and since there has been a web, their own web
 content/usability/accessibility standards in one form or another. Most are
 compliant in some way or another with WCAG 1.0 - but this is based on
 interpretation, and these interpretations vary between organisations.

 Privacy is looked after by the Australian Privacy Commissioner (
 http://www.privacy.gov.au/).

 An study of the Australian Government web standards environment is not
 complete without examining the role of the Australian Human Rights
 Commission (http://www.hreoc.gov.au). One of the Commissioners, Graeme
 Innes, has put the lot of us on notice - he will (to use his words) name
 and shame organisations that have inaccessible sites. He has started this
 already.

 Cheers, Andrew


 On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 8:44 PM, Benedict Wyss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 And then the clouds parted...

 http://webpublishing.agimo.gov.au/

 If anyone wants to add then please do so but shall consider this closed.

 Cheers,


 On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 8:31 PM, Benedict Wyss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi all,

 I am looking for any and all links to comprehensive listings of:

1. Australian Government Industry Best Practices
2. Australian Government Standards (Privacy, Accessibility and
Usability)

 I have been googling for a while and coming up with bunk.

 All assistance welcomed.

 Thanks,

 Ben



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Re: [WSG] JavaScript clarification please

2008-10-25 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Christian Snodgrass wrote:
I second that. They actually have a LOT more bad information than they 
do good information, and what little good information they have is often 
quite out of date (so, it was good information, but not anymore).


And when they _do_ add new information, they get that wrong too:

http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2008-August/016157.html

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Re: [WSG] Font-size inheritance issue?

2008-10-25 Thread Hassan Schroeder

Lynette Smith wrote:


Won't guarantee this is the source of your woes, but on the Operations page,
the h2OPERATIONS isn't closed.

Yes - how embarrassing!  Can't believe I did that!


To err is human - typos happen :-) but this is yet another example
where running the W3C validator on the page would have immediately
identified the cause of what looked like a CSS display issue.

FWIW,
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RE: [WSG] Font-size inheritance issue?

2008-10-25 Thread Aaron Wheeler
Hi all my name is Aaron and I own the new site cssboard.co.uk I am writing
to you all today to see if anyone could help me out with 3 minutes of their
time. I am startinga new magazine (FREE) called Css Design it is a magazine
designed at reaching the designers of the web world who loved and will only
stick to the css standard way of life. 

In short I am looking for as much help as I can writing the articles ( all
adverts go to you and you companies / projects) 

The themes this month is as follows

IN THIS ISSUE

The Growth of Gallery  Design Competition Sites (Article)

How to create the perfect css menu navigation (Tutorial)

Where is design heading in 2009(Article)

The Perfect Layout (Tutorial) 

Clean Code (Article)

Design Competition - Design a new church site (Prize award of free css bible
book)

Resources ( A collection of links that will build up as the magazine gets
better)

3 - 4 pages of advertising throughout the issue

Best CSS Gallery - We will be doing an article on the best css gallery site
we can find.


If you can help please let me know , Thanks 

Aaron




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RE: [WSG] Font-size inheritance issue?

2008-10-25 Thread Essential eBiz Solutions Ltd
Hi Aaron,
I'm more than happy to supply a CSS menu tutorial for a standard or
drop down menu. 

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Behalf Of Aaron Wheeler
Sent: 25 October 2008 18:57
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: RE: [WSG] Font-size inheritance issue?

Hi all my name is Aaron and I own the new site cssboard.co.uk I am writing
to you all today to see if anyone could help me out with 3 minutes of their
time. I am startinga new magazine (FREE) called Css Design it is a magazine
designed at reaching the designers of the web world who loved and will only
stick to the css standard way of life. 

In short I am looking for as much help as I can writing the articles ( all
adverts go to you and you companies / projects) 

The themes this month is as follows

IN THIS ISSUE

The Growth of Gallery  Design Competition Sites (Article)

How to create the perfect css menu navigation (Tutorial)

Where is design heading in 2009(Article)

The Perfect Layout (Tutorial) 

Clean Code (Article)

Design Competition - Design a new church site (Prize award of free css bible
book)

Resources ( A collection of links that will build up as the magazine gets
better)

3 - 4 pages of advertising throughout the issue

Best CSS Gallery - We will be doing an article on the best css gallery site
we can find.


If you can help please let me know , Thanks 

Aaron




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[WSG] Writing authoritative content

2008-10-25 Thread Edward Clarke
Aaron,

I'll try and be as constructive as possible but I have to point out a few
things and make some suggestions?!

People who read articles, magazines, discuss on boards, are in large,
learners. We're all students of the Web but all too often we learn on the
advice of others with, what we perceive to be, authority.

The contents of this month's issue states: perfect menus, perfect layouts
and clean code. Now, may I ask on what authority do you claim to be in a
position to write such material? The reason I ask is when I read your post,
I checked out your website, www.stageguy.co.uk, blindly hoping for a useful
resource but instead I was met with a seriously poor mix of HTML which
chokes the validator and makes no sense. Beyond this I checked out your
portfolio and even your clients websites share the same poor mix of HTML
which makes no logical sense (but somehow renders).

Since this is a standards list, I'd hope this would be a bigger priority
before imparting your knowledge of CSS, after all, how can you effectively
style poor, invalid markup when the markup is the foundation?

Apologies is this sounds like a bashing, I don't normally post but it's just
I've spent two days with some web designers and I've been (not literally)
wringing their necks trying to unlearn authoritative information about
markup and style they've read on the web.

I hope you see this in the light it was meant for. Don't try to run before
you can walk, sort your website out, improve the quality of your clients
work and perhaps you'll have great success as an author and we can all read
and learn, as I've previously mentioned, we're all students of the Web.

Regards,
Edward Clarke
www.ebizconsultancy.co.uk

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Sent: 25 October 2008 18:57
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: RE: [WSG] Font-size inheritance issue?

Hi all my name is Aaron and I own the new site cssboard.co.uk I am writing
to you all today to see if anyone could help me out with 3 minutes of their
time. I am startinga new magazine (FREE) called Css Design it is a magazine
designed at reaching the designers of the web world who loved and will only
stick to the css standard way of life. 

In short I am looking for as much help as I can writing the articles ( all
adverts go to you and you companies / projects) 

The themes this month is as follows

IN THIS ISSUE

The Growth of Gallery  Design Competition Sites (Article)

How to create the perfect css menu navigation (Tutorial)

Where is design heading in 2009(Article)

The Perfect Layout (Tutorial) 

Clean Code (Article)

Design Competition - Design a new church site (Prize award of free css bible
book)

Resources ( A collection of links that will build up as the magazine gets
better)

3 - 4 pages of advertising throughout the issue

Best CSS Gallery - We will be doing an article on the best css gallery site
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RE: [WSG] Writing authoritative content

2008-10-25 Thread Aaron Wheeler
Hi Edward

Thanks for your views and I totally understand where you are coming from. My
clients sites were designed by me and a most have not been coded. They had
their own coders. 
My site is only being created I am getting the look right before I get the
code sorted this for me seems to come last. 
I try to get it working:) 

Thanks again for being nice unlike some other emails I have received. 

Aaron

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Behalf Of Edward Clarke
Sent: 25 October 2008 20:19
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: [WSG] Writing authoritative content

Aaron,

I'll try and be as constructive as possible but I have to point out a few
things and make some suggestions?!

People who read articles, magazines, discuss on boards, are in large,
learners. We're all students of the Web but all too often we learn on the
advice of others with, what we perceive to be, authority.

The contents of this month's issue states: perfect menus, perfect layouts
and clean code. Now, may I ask on what authority do you claim to be in a
position to write such material? The reason I ask is when I read your post,
I checked out your website, www.stageguy.co.uk, blindly hoping for a useful
resource but instead I was met with a seriously poor mix of HTML which
chokes the validator and makes no sense. Beyond this I checked out your
portfolio and even your clients websites share the same poor mix of HTML
which makes no logical sense (but somehow renders).

Since this is a standards list, I'd hope this would be a bigger priority
before imparting your knowledge of CSS, after all, how can you effectively
style poor, invalid markup when the markup is the foundation?

Apologies is this sounds like a bashing, I don't normally post but it's just
I've spent two days with some web designers and I've been (not literally)
wringing their necks trying to unlearn authoritative information about
markup and style they've read on the web.

I hope you see this in the light it was meant for. Don't try to run before
you can walk, sort your website out, improve the quality of your clients
work and perhaps you'll have great success as an author and we can all read
and learn, as I've previously mentioned, we're all students of the Web.

Regards,
Edward Clarke
www.ebizconsultancy.co.uk

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Aaron Wheeler
Sent: 25 October 2008 18:57
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: RE: [WSG] Font-size inheritance issue?

Hi all my name is Aaron and I own the new site cssboard.co.uk I am writing
to you all today to see if anyone could help me out with 3 minutes of their
time. I am startinga new magazine (FREE) called Css Design it is a magazine
designed at reaching the designers of the web world who loved and will only
stick to the css standard way of life. 

In short I am looking for as much help as I can writing the articles ( all
adverts go to you and you companies / projects) 

The themes this month is as follows

IN THIS ISSUE

The Growth of Gallery  Design Competition Sites (Article)

How to create the perfect css menu navigation (Tutorial)

Where is design heading in 2009(Article)

The Perfect Layout (Tutorial) 

Clean Code (Article)

Design Competition - Design a new church site (Prize award of free css bible
book)

Resources ( A collection of links that will build up as the magazine gets
better)

3 - 4 pages of advertising throughout the issue

Best CSS Gallery - We will be doing an article on the best css gallery site
we can find.




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RE: [WSG] Writing authoritative content

2008-10-25 Thread Edward Clarke
I don't doubt your intentions, the more useful resources there are the more
the standards are raised but people will interpret / get led by / take
as gospel information they receive when the source of the information is,
in their eyes, authoritative. With this comes a responsibility to be
factually accurate and be of unquestionable quality. Just look at the UK's
current education system for the results of poor teaching, economically
unproductive numpties who struggle to spell correctly.

I wouldn't worry too much about arguments, let it fall on deaf ears, but do
heed knowledge and experience from seasoned coders here, after all, it's
something you'll be expecting your readership to do ;) WSG is a very
productive list for students of standards so you're definitely in the right
place.

I wish your magazine every success.

Regards,
Edward Clarke
www.ebizconsultancy.co.uk

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Sent: 25 October 2008 20:40
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: RE: [WSG] Writing authoritative content

Edward

Sorry but to elaborate further, I found this problem to with so many people
offering the true compliant ways to code and not performing and once again
blaming the web for their mistakes. I would like to point out this is why I
have turned to this site as a means to help out on my magazine to make sure
all stuff is compliant. I was going to send an email next saying any
articles that are made for my magazine if they were posted in these emails.
If when people got a chance could please read and confirm all this. I do not
mean to upset people and start arguments which some people would seem want
to I just want a magazine that is easy to follow and keeps us to a line with
compliant standards. 

If you have any issues regarding this email please feel free to contact me
on the details below.
Aaron Wheeler

Tel: 01483 860 235 
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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RE: [WSG] Writing authoritative content

2008-10-25 Thread Aaron Wheeler
Thanks Edward
You have been a very good help to me, I will try to be as accurate in my
magazine as possible and that is why I am asking for help (I will pass pdf's
of the magazine as it goes along the production stage for all you guys to
have a look if you like and let me know).

I would appreciate any ideas, what would you like from a magazine. I am
trying to include good informative articles on current issues with browser
compatibility as well as the focus on css3 when it is released full with
browsers that fully support this function.

So any ideas you or anyone else has on what you would like please let me
know.

If you have any issues regarding this email please feel free to contact me
on the details below.
Aaron Wheeler

Tel: 01483 860 235 
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web: www.stageguy.co.uk




-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Edward Clarke
Sent: 25 October 2008 21:00
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: RE: [WSG] Writing authoritative content

I don't doubt your intentions, the more useful resources there are the more
the standards are raised but people will interpret / get led by / take
as gospel information they receive when the source of the information is,
in their eyes, authoritative. With this comes a responsibility to be
factually accurate and be of unquestionable quality. Just look at the UK's
current education system for the results of poor teaching, economically
unproductive numpties who struggle to spell correctly.

I wouldn't worry too much about arguments, let it fall on deaf ears, but do
heed knowledge and experience from seasoned coders here, after all, it's
something you'll be expecting your readership to do ;) WSG is a very
productive list for students of standards so you're definitely in the right
place.

I wish your magazine every success.

Regards,
Edward Clarke
www.ebizconsultancy.co.uk

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Aaron Wheeler
Sent: 25 October 2008 20:40
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: RE: [WSG] Writing authoritative content

Edward

Sorry but to elaborate further, I found this problem to with so many people
offering the true compliant ways to code and not performing and once again
blaming the web for their mistakes. I would like to point out this is why I
have turned to this site as a means to help out on my magazine to make sure
all stuff is compliant. I was going to send an email next saying any
articles that are made for my magazine if they were posted in these emails.
If when people got a chance could please read and confirm all this. I do not
mean to upset people and start arguments which some people would seem want
to I just want a magazine that is easy to follow and keeps us to a line with
compliant standards. 

If you have any issues regarding this email please feel free to contact me
on the details below.
Aaron Wheeler

Tel: 01483 860 235 
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web: www.stageguy.co.uk




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Re: [WSG] Drop Down Menu

2008-10-25 Thread Глеб Борисов

I think that you can refactor your code to this:

script type=text/javascript
/** you can create Objects more accuracy and easy reading **/
var cities = {
CA: [Sacramento,San Diego,San Francisco,Los Angeles],
OH: [Cleveland,Akron,Canton,Cincinnati,Columbus],
PA: [Philadelphia,Pittsburgh,Harrisburgh]
/** TODO: don't forget to remove comma from last hash-item **/
};
function fillSelect (value, list)
{
var currentState = cities[value];
list.options.length = 1;
/** declaring iterator variable as local more accuracy and nice 
**/
for (var each in currentState)
{
			/** when you extending Object via prototype — all functions and  
properties will be iterated. So you should check where current  
property described (prototype or this object) **/
			if (!(currentState.hasOwnProperty   
currentState.hasOwnProperty(each))) continue;


var nOption = document.createElement(option);

nOption.appendChild(document.createTextNode(currentState[each]));
nOption.setAttribute(value, currentState[each]);
list.appendChild(nOption);
}
}
/script

PS. I prefer to use suggest-like editbox to select city, because it's  
more useful and compatible with browser without javascript. In your  
sample you can't select city, if js disabled or error occured.


On Oct 24, 2008, at 1:28 PM, Fuji kusaka wrote:


script type=text/javascript

var cities = [];
cities[CA] = [Sacramento,San Diego,San Francisco,Los  
Angeles];
cities[OH] =  
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Re: [WSG] Writing authoritative content

2008-10-25 Thread Andrew Brown

This isn't a magazine website?, its a physical magazine?


On 25-Oct-08, at 4:43 PM, Aaron Wheeler wrote:


Thanks Edward
You have been a very good help to me, I will try to be as accurate  
in my
magazine as possible and that is why I am asking for help (I will  
pass pdf's
of the magazine as it goes along the production stage for all you  
guys to

have a look if you like and let me know).

I would appreciate any ideas, what would you like from a magazine. I  
am
trying to include good informative articles on current issues with  
browser
compatibility as well as the focus on css3 when it is released full  
with

browsers that fully support this function.

So any ideas you or anyone else has on what you would like please  
let me

know.

If you have any issues regarding this email please feel free to  
contact me

on the details below.
Aaron Wheeler

Tel: 01483 860 235
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web: www.stageguy.co.uk




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I don't doubt your intentions, the more useful resources there are  
the more
the standards are raised but people will interpret / get led  
by / take
as gospel information they receive when the source of the  
information is,

in their eyes, authoritative. With this comes a responsibility to be
factually accurate and be of unquestionable quality. Just look at  
the UK's
current education system for the results of poor teaching,  
economically

unproductive numpties who struggle to spell correctly.

I wouldn't worry too much about arguments, let it fall on deaf ears,  
but do
heed knowledge and experience from seasoned coders here, after all,  
it's

something you'll be expecting your readership to do ;) WSG is a very
productive list for students of standards so you're definitely in  
the right

place.

I wish your magazine every success.

Regards,
Edward Clarke
www.ebizconsultancy.co.uk

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Edward

Sorry but to elaborate further, I found this problem to with so many  
people
offering the true compliant ways to code and not performing and once  
again
blaming the web for their mistakes. I would like to point out this  
is why I
have turned to this site as a means to help out on my magazine to  
make sure

all stuff is compliant. I was going to send an email next saying any
articles that are made for my magazine if they were posted in these  
emails.
If when people got a chance could please read and confirm all this.  
I do not
mean to upset people and start arguments which some people would  
seem want
to I just want a magazine that is easy to follow and keeps us to a  
line with

compliant standards.

If you have any issues regarding this email please feel free to  
contact me

on the details below.
Aaron Wheeler

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RE: [WSG] Writing authoritative content

2008-10-25 Thread Edward Clarke
Andrew,

I'm not sure who those questions were aimed at but does the medium matter if
the information is the same? It's the validity of the content that's at
question here.

Regards,
Edward Clarke
www.ebizconsultancy.co.uk

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Re: [WSG] Writing authoritative content

2008-10-25 Thread Andrew Brown

I know but people still read magazines?

On 25-Oct-08, at 5:22 PM, Edward Clarke wrote:


Andrew,

I'm not sure who those questions were aimed at but does the medium  
matter if
the information is the same? It's the validity of the content that's  
at

question here.

Regards,
Edward Clarke
www.ebizconsultancy.co.uk

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Re: [WSG] Re: Searching for standards information

2008-10-25 Thread Andrew Boyd
Ben,

in Australia, the Australian Human Rights Commission looks after breaches of
the Disability Discrimination Act, which is the main legislation that is
interpreted to cover web accessibility.

So while some form of accessible information is definitely a basic human
right, it is also the law here.

Best regards, Andrew

On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 11:06 PM, Benedict Wyss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi Andrew,

 First off..good reply.

 I like the last paragraph re human rights. Even though I don't need to be
 forced to be compliant to standards as I have a conscience but (and excuse
 my ignorance) when has being able to access the internet a human right. I
 thought it was the domain of things like security, sustenance and protection
 from the elements. I am further thinking that in order to obtain justifiable
 rights the movement inevitably swings heavily to the right/left in an
 attempt to end up in the middle ground.

 I am interested in hearing peoples thoughts on this one. Is it a human
 right or...?

 [disclosure: no offense intended]

 Cheers,


 On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 9:55 PM, Andrew Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Ben,

 AGIMO publishes guidelines that cover some of what you asked for - it is
 up to individual organisations as to which guidelines they follow and how
 far - it shouldn't be that way but it is. Each organisation that I've worked
 in over the last 25 years in Government has had their own writing standards
 - and since there has been a web, their own web
 content/usability/accessibility standards in one form or another. Most are
 compliant in some way or another with WCAG 1.0 - but this is based on
 interpretation, and these interpretations vary between organisations.

 Privacy is looked after by the Australian Privacy Commissioner (
 http://www.privacy.gov.au/).

 An study of the Australian Government web standards environment is not
 complete without examining the role of the Australian Human Rights
 Commission (http://www.hreoc.gov.au). One of the Commissioners, Graeme
 Innes, has put the lot of us on notice - he will (to use his words) name
 and shame organisations that have inaccessible sites. He has started this
 already.

 Cheers, Andrew


 On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 8:44 PM, Benedict Wyss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 And then the clouds parted...

 http://webpublishing.agimo.gov.au/

 If anyone wants to add then please do so but shall consider this closed.

 Cheers,


 On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 8:31 PM, Benedict Wyss [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:

 Hi all,

 I am looking for any and all links to comprehensive listings of:

1. Australian Government Industry Best Practices
2. Australian Government Standards (Privacy, Accessibility and
Usability)

 I have been googling for a while and coming up with bunk.

 All assistance welcomed.

 Thanks,

 Ben



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Re: [WSG] Writing authoritative content

2008-10-25 Thread Brett Patterson
Uh...yeah. Both the virtual and physical ones.

On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Andrew Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I know but people still read magazines?


 On 25-Oct-08, at 5:22 PM, Edward Clarke wrote:

  Andrew,

 I'm not sure who those questions were aimed at but does the medium matter
 if
 the information is the same? It's the validity of the content that's at
 question here.

 Regards,
 Edward Clarke
 www.ebizconsultancy.co.uk

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Re: [WSG] Font-size inheritance issue?

2008-10-25 Thread Lynette Smith


To err is human - typos happen :-) but this is yet another example
where running the W3C validator on the page would have immediately
identified the cause of what looked like a CSS display issue.
You are SO right, Hassan -it is usually the first thing I do when I have 
a problem - I can only blame it on a  senior moment!

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