Re: [WSG] OT? - spam in forms

2007-02-15 Thread James Crooke
I think it's safe to say that blind AND deaf people surfing with braille devices are a very small minority, and very aware of the limitations of their system. When you target this disabilities group, I guess you have to take the risk of spamming and NOT use CAPTCHA. Again, it comes down to the

[WSG Announce] Some links for light reading (15/2/07)

2007-02-15 Thread russ - maxdesign
** This is a one-way list for WSG Announcements ** This email covers: - Links for light reading - WSG and Industry events - Web standards related jobs (1 job this week)

[WSG] RE: OT? - spam in forms: use beyesian filters!

2007-02-15 Thread sigurd
Title: SilverStripe Newsletter I personally get very frustrated with captchas, especially really awkwardly hard to interpret ones. And the questions below are novel for a while but wear you down after 10-20 a day! One reason I get frustrated with them is that there are great

Re: [WSG] OT? - spam in forms

2007-02-15 Thread Christian Montoya
On 2/15/07, James Crooke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it's safe to say that blind AND deaf people surfing with braille devices are a very small minority, and very aware of the limitations of their system. When you target this disabilities group, I guess you have to take the risk of spamming

Re: [WSG] any good for yahoo UI Grid CSS?

2007-02-15 Thread Andrew Ingram
Tee, This is an interesting question. My personal opinion is that the YUI Grid approach is wrong. Basically you end up choosing your markup and class/id values based on how you want it to appear. You can modify the Grid CSS to use semantically relevant selectors but at the end of the day

Re: [WSG] Site check raoset.com

2007-02-15 Thread Dwain Alford
first thing you need to do is go here: http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=628 and get the color contrast analyzer and check your menu colors. it's not too easy on my eyes and fails the color blind test hands down. other than that the index page is easy to read. the menu though is

Re: [WSG] any good for yahoo UI Grid CSS?

2007-02-15 Thread Peter Ottery
re - I did a site, now client's client was wondering if I can update the markup I did to YUI. Very strange request to me. agreed, if you're a wizz at css you can achieve all the same benefits that the YUI GRID CSS gives you as a headstart. But from a clients point of view - the main attraction

Re: [WSG] Site check raoset.com

2007-02-15 Thread lisa fox
Hi Jason You may want to rethink the 'Click here' link at the bottom of the page regarding signup for the newsletter. A contextual link would be better. Off topic would be setting up a 301 permanent redirect from http://raoset.com to http://www.raoset.com. Cheers Lisa On 2/16/07, Jason Pruim