RE: [WSG] web check

2007-02-13 Thread Patrick Lauke
Simply in the root folder, create a file: .htaccess then: --start-- rewriteengine on rewriterule ^gallery/$ gallery.php -- end -- ...or enable multiviews, which is a far slicker way IMHO... P Patrick H. Lauke Web Editor / University of

RE: [WSG] No. abbreviation glyph

2007-02-08 Thread Patrick Lauke
Dmitry Baranovskiy Add to this “Will search engines correctly understand such a symbols?” The answer is “No”. Compare: 3×4 http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=enq=3%D74btnG=Searchmeta= 3x4 http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=enq=3x4btnG=Searchmeta= 3 4

RE: [WSG] Background images turned off? (was Visited Links and Accessibility)

2007-01-12 Thread Patrick Lauke
Barney Carroll What would your mobile css change compared to the screen one? Mostly, optimise for single column, linearised viewing. Possibly avoid very heavy use of image replacement for larger elements. P Patrick H. Lauke Web Editor / University of Salford

RE: [WSG] Using cursor:default; on the whole page but links

2007-01-11 Thread Patrick Lauke
James Crooke We have conducted usability testing on 100's of sites and my argument is that when you hover over a button and nothing happens, users sometimes think oh the button is dead A counter argument to that: So they'll get confused on every site that uses a button. You then change it

RE: [WSG] Background image rendering

2006-11-27 Thread Patrick Lauke
Nick Fitzsimons I once read an explanation of why CSS selectors can't do this, but I can't find it now. I seem to remember that the main objections were: a) performance issues (as there is the potential, with ancestor queries, to run very slow depending on how deep the DOM tree is) b)

RE: [WSG] Cynthia Reports Warnings 9.4 and 9.5 as relates to form

2006-11-10 Thread Patrick Lauke
Mike at Green-Beast.com I echo what Mel said, though I'd like to add that the label should probably be the same as the name (and the ID, if needed, may as well match too). Just being mindful that obviously, for radio buttons, the ID can't match the name, as the former needs to be

RE: [WSG] Getting the layout to work and with all browsers

2006-10-12 Thread Patrick Lauke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] I can't find the reference now, but I saw a report recently by someone of the likes of Gartner, that reckoned it would take a year or so before IE7 overtook IE6. At least part of that will be that a lot of organisations (ours included) are working towards blocking the

RE: [WSG] font standards today

2006-08-25 Thread Patrick Lauke
Townson, Chris Patrick H. Lauke wrote: If the generated image also has the right alt text, you can copy paste if you start just before the image (just as with sIFR). The only thing that you can't do is select just a set of characters/words from the replaced heading itself

RE: [WSG] Form check

2006-07-25 Thread Patrick Lauke
Shlomi Asaf Dean, about FieldSet its going to become Deprecated: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.10 aehno it wont. the *align attribute* in fieldset is deprecated, not the fieldset itself... P Patrick H. Lauke Web Editor / University

RE: [WSG] Web site images question

2006-06-12 Thread Patrick Lauke
John S. Britsios So I have visited the HTML Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 here http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/#image-text-equivalent and I was surprised to find there an example, that is 100% identical to one of the images of my site. You *cannot*

RE: [WSG] XHTML Strict

2006-06-07 Thread Patrick Lauke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Surely any conforming user agent should ignore any markup that it does not understand, so is there really any need to stop using name, where it is being used for 'belt and braces' compatibility? For XHTML 1.0 (even strict), using name is still fine. Deprecated, yes, but

RE: [WSG] Web-safe Colour Palette

2006-06-06 Thread Patrick Lauke
Jan Brasna Right. Nowadays you should have no problems with colors I think that, as always, this will come down to your target audience. If you know for a fact that there are still a sizeable proportion of your users on 800x600 with only 256 colours or similar, it's obviously worth

RE: [WSG] Web-safe Colour Palette

2006-06-06 Thread Patrick Lauke
Joshua Street On 6/6/06, Patrick Lauke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: avoid that a foreground and background colour resolves to the exact same safe colour. And, obviously, if this is happening there's probably already enough wrong with your design's contrast that safe colours should

RE: [WSG] Through PDA

2006-06-06 Thread Patrick Lauke
Leskinen N. Yesterday I have connected PDA to the Internet and have looked as sites under web-standards are well looked. http://whale-zx.livejournal.com/8498.html Not so well... So...the mobile version of IE tries half-heartedly to apply some screen CSS and fails? Quelle surprise!

RE: [WSG] new site critique - extemely

2006-05-25 Thread Patrick Lauke
Warren Cardinal if resizing text breaks the design, why the hell allow it? If people can't read your text, why the hell put it online? Case in point is all these cool flash sites out there that even I can't read, they are so tiny. And that's a good thing? Typography is an art

RE: [WSG] new site critique - extemely

2006-05-25 Thread Patrick Lauke
And to quote your previous message Warren Cardinal It's a tool Tool indeed. P Patrick H. Lauke Web Editor / University of Salford http://www.salford.ac.uk Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force

RE: [WSG] WCAG 2.0: Joe Clark article

2006-05-25 Thread Patrick Lauke
Roberto Scano I think that, due the deadline for comments for WCAG 2.0 Last Call is on 31th May 2005, is best to read WCAG 2.0 and send directly comments [1] ;-) Time to read Joe's article: 10 minutes. Time to read WCAG 2.0 (and its associated informative documents): 3 days? I'm sure we

RE: Probable_SPAM: [WSG] firefox question

2006-05-22 Thread Patrick Lauke
kvnmcwebn why doesn't firefox recognize the visited state in this rule? .navcontainer a:hover:visited { color:#BCB281; } Tried on one of my pages, and FF recognizes :hover:visited and :visited:hover just fine. Probably a specificity issue? Patrick

RE: [WSG] Validation Errors - Follow up.

2006-05-18 Thread Patrick Lauke
Cole Kuryakin As Bruce - and perhaps others - had mentioned in a few of the replies, I tried inherit as the background-color property on all rules in question, revalidated, and PERFECT. No errors or warnings at all. As long as you're using flat colours, that's fine. Be aware, though,

RE: [WSG] Help Documentation

2006-04-28 Thread Patrick Lauke
Web Man Walking I was wondering if anyone had any experience of the best Web Standardy way of documenting Help/FAQ's etc. There's no one way that is The Best(tm), but some ideas would be: - using definition lists dl dtQ/dt ddA/dd dtQ/dt ddA/dd ... /dl - simply using headings/paragraphs

RE: [WSG] Page refresh and screenreader users issue

2006-04-13 Thread Patrick Lauke
John S. Britsios The guideline 31 for Accessible and Usable Web Sites, with the title Do not exclude labels form fields found here http://redish.net/content/papers/interactions.html says: When filling out a field makes the page refresh, the software starts reading from the top as