RE: [WSG] who's going to the @media conference

2006-06-12 Thread Golding, Antony
> So, who's heading to London next week for the @media conference? I'll be there! :) Antony Antony Golding Principal Systems Development Officer Salford City Council - http://www.salford.gov.uk DISCLAIMER: The information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is i

[WSG] absolute positioned element not displaying where it should in FireFox

2006-06-12 Thread Taco Fleur
http://www.apartmentrealty.com.au/site/search/search-results.cfm   The icons for bed, bath and parking do not display in the position they should in Firefox, they should be displayed in the grey table header on the right from Ipanema Luxury Apartment $650 pw It displays correct in IE, I ca

RE: [WSG] Screenreaders and AJAX and bears...oh my...

2006-06-12 Thread Jon Gunderson
There is work going at the W3C to make it easier for developers to make AJAx applications more accessible to people with disabilities. More information at: http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/roadmap/ Jon Original message >Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 22:36:02 -0400 >From: "Michael Yeaney" <[EMAIL PRO

RE: [WSG] Screenreaders and AJAX and bears...oh my...

2006-06-12 Thread Michael Yeaney
ExactlyI was not suggesting that we should ignore all aspects - I was merely questioning why it seems that we (web developers) are responsible (or so it seems) for the specifics (for example, why should we worry about _exactly_ what colors we choose - I can only hope that a capable program can

Re: [WSG] Screenreaders and AJAX and bears...oh my...

2006-06-12 Thread James Laugesen
Hi Steve, sorry I better confirm what I said "IMO even considering colour blindness is counter-productive, colour correction should be a feature of an 'acccessability-friendly' browser.".If a website is accessable via a screen reader, then it _must_ be possible to display the site in more appropria

Re: [WSG] who's going to the @media conference

2006-06-12 Thread Jared Smith
Ted Drake wrote: Hi Everyone So, who's heading to London next week for the @media conference? Me too. Coming across the pond from the U.S. It should be quite a party - at least as geek parties go. Jared Smith WebAIM.org ** The discussio

Re: [WSG] who's going to the @media conference

2006-06-12 Thread Kazuhito Kidachi
On 6/9/06, Ted Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So, who's heading to London next week for the @media conference? I'll be there, too - from Tokyo, Japan. -- Kazuhito Kidachi mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** The discussion list for http://webstand

RE: [WSG] Screenreaders and AJAX and bears...oh my...

2006-06-12 Thread Steve Green
Having just returned from a user-testing session with someone who has severe colour perception impairment (caused by retinitis pigmentosa) I am appalled by this "it's not the designer's problem" attitude. This person uses the ZoomText magnifier, which has a wide range of colour substitution

Re: [WSG] who's going to the @media conference

2006-06-12 Thread Olly Hodgson
On 08/06/06, Jan Brasna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, who's heading to London next week for the @media conference? *Raises hand* Me too!!! :) -- Olly Hodgson http://thinkdrastic.net/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.

Re: [WSG] Screenreaders and AJAX and bears...oh my...

2006-06-12 Thread James Laugesen
I think the only burden placed on developers is to ensure their site can be realisticly processed by a computer.When I consider "accessability", I consider it reffering to accessability by computers... I know that's not how the term is usually used, but that's just how I think about it. Because, in

Re: [WSG] Jello variation

2006-06-12 Thread Tom Livingston
On 6/10/06 4:50 AM, "Designer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am I cracking up? Is it better now? http://66.155.251.18/mlinc.com/test/index2.html [thanks Francky] -- Tom Livingston | Senior Multimedia Artist | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlinc.com

Re: [WSG] Screenreaders and AJAX and bears...oh my...

2006-06-12 Thread Gene Falck
Hi Mike, You wrote: However, what I've noticed that you do not see are articles pushing the screen reader manufacturers to make more capable and intellegent readers for the browsers.they seem to be able to do this for desktop applications (at least to a reasonable level). It seems that man

[WSG] Screenreaders and AJAX and bears...oh my...

2006-06-12 Thread Michael Yeaney
While reading a recent article [1] about AJAX applications, I had a thought that will no doubt offend some, inspire others, and humor the rest. It seems that we are putting tons and tons of work into making sure our documents are structured correctly to work with things such as screen-readers and

[WSG Announce] Some links for light reading (13/6/06)

2006-06-12 Thread russ - maxdesign
This is a one-way list for WSG Announcements This email covers: - Links for light reading - Events - Jobs -- LINKS FOR LIGHT READING -- Site Check > http://uitest.com/en/check/ Sizer, > h

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

Re: [WSG] Web site images question

2006-06-12 Thread Lachlan Hunt
John S. Britsios wrote: First of all I would like to thank you all for your kind contribution. Things got very complicated, because of all pros and conts, so I thought of having a look again, what W3C recommends. So I have visited the "HTML Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

Re: [WSG] Web site images question

2006-06-12 Thread John S. Britsios
First of all I would like to thank you all for your kind contribution. Things got very complicated, because of all pros and conts, so I thought of having a look again, what W3C recommends. So I have visited the "HTML Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0" here http://www.w3

[WSG] title question-was image question

2006-06-12 Thread kvnmcwebn
Laura Said >>If a search button is a magnifying glass or binoculars its alt text should be 'search' or 'find' not 'magnifying glass' or 'binoculars'. - If an image is meant to convey an image - then a description is appropriate. Thanks Laura, this says it all. What about titles, ive seen

[WSG] Re: Web site images question

2006-06-12 Thread Laura Carlson
An alt attribute is not a label or description for the image. This is not an immediately obvious distinction. In fact, it might seem natural to assume that alternate text is a label or a description. It is not. The words used should be a text equivalent and convey the same information/serve the

Re: [WSG] Jello variation

2006-06-12 Thread Tom Livingston
Title: Re: [WSG] Jello variation On 6/10/06 8:52 AM, "Gunlaug Sørtun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The logic behind the use of an _expression_ to fix IE's lack of > 'max-width' when dealing with 'em-width' scaled layouts, should be > reversed - like in this test/demo-example... > > Thanks

Re: [WSG] using html elements on javascript

2006-06-12 Thread James Laugesen
Hi Al, it doesn't make sense to be performing formatting inside the script like that, think about what you're really trying to acheive.I'd at least do something like:safemail('shirazman',' hotmail.com','BUCHANAN', 'Mark (Buck)')and the safemail function does semanticly nice html, with css for the b

Re: [WSG] domain display and hosting

2006-06-12 Thread Lea de Groot
Designer wrote: Thanks Lea, and 'Whooops'! I should have said www.kernowimages.co.uk ! You're welcome :) A quick header check - http://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/headers.asp is the first result on google - shows them doing a simple little 302. I'd move host, rather than try and make them h

Re: [WSG] domain display and hosting

2006-06-12 Thread Designer
Lea de Groot wrote: Designer wrote: The way the hosting company offer to overcome this is to wrap the whole thing in a frameset, and indeed it works, except that every page appears as www.kernowimages.com and you can't get to 'view source' or bookmark. It's a mess, and obviously isn't good pra

Re: [WSG] domain display and hosting

2006-06-12 Thread James Laugesen
Hi Bob, sorry to say but I think you've been misslead, or at least someone's held off telling you 'the full story'.Do some reading on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System and it'll all make perfect sense.I would call this on-topic, since from the users perspective hosting can still equa

Re: [WSG] domain display and hosting

2006-06-12 Thread Lea de Groot
Designer wrote: The way the hosting company offer to overcome this is to wrap the whole thing in a frameset, and indeed it works, except that every page appears as www.kernowimages.com and you can't get to 'view source' or bookmark. It's a mess, and obviously isn't good practice. Well, we are

[WSG] domain display and hosting

2006-06-12 Thread Designer
Dear Listees, I hope this is not OT, but I have a question about domain displays in the UA. The folk who I use to handle my domains do it in a way that displays the real location of the site in the browser address bar. So, if I put www.kernowimages.com in the address bar, it gets to the right

Re: [WSG] using html elements on javascript

2006-06-12 Thread Lachlan Hunt
David Dixon wrote: Hi Al, Someone might be able to correct me, if my info is not totally accurate, but if memory serves the following applies: The tag is deprecated in XHTML 1.0, and not allowed in strict No it is not deprecated. It is declared in the XHTML 1.0 Strict DTD. http://www.w3.o

Re: [WSG] using html elements on javascript

2006-06-12 Thread Al Kendall
Lachlan, I tried using the CDATA method you discribe but unfortunately it still does work.   The text does not display and I am presuming it has something to do with the other part of the script as it has a document.write() compentent in it.  Any other help would be greatly appreciated

Re: [WSG] using html elements on javascript

2006-06-12 Thread Jan Brasna
It seems that you can't nest strong and span under a script. Not nest - you can't use the closing tag in a string unescaped. -- Jan Brasna :: www.alphanumeric.cz | www.janbrasna.com | www.wdnews.net ** The discussion list for http://webstan

Re: [WSG] using html elements on javascript

2006-06-12 Thread David Dixon
Hi Al, Someone might be able to correct me, if my info is not totally accurate, but if memory serves the following applies: The tag is deprecated in XHTML 1.0, and not allowed in strict The tag doesn't exist The tag is perfectly valid in XHTML, but in strict, it cannot be a direct child of

Re: [WSG] using html elements on javascript

2006-06-12 Thread Kat
Al Kendall wrote: Hi, I have a simple little script I use for protecting email addresses from spammers... problems is that using the 'bold - strong or b' elements within are not allowed in xhtml strict markup. Can anyone help me with a solution please? sample type='text/javascript'>sa

RE: [WSG] using html elements on javascript

I can see you could wrap that _javascript_ command in a div/span and then apply CSS attributes to it.   From: listdad@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al Kendall Sent: Monday, 12 June 2006 4:12 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] using html

Re: [WSG] using html elements on javascript

Al Kendall wrote: Hi, I have a simple little script I use for protecting email addresses from spammers... problems is that using the 'bold - strong or b' elements within are not allowed in xhtml strict markup. Can anyone help me with a solution please? sample type='text/javascript'>sa

Re: [WSG] using html elements on javascript

Al Kendall wrote: I have a simple little script I use for protecting email addresses from spammers... problems is that using the 'bold - strong or b' elements within are not allowed in xhtml strict markup. Can anyone help me with a solution please? sample type='text/javascript'>safemail('shi

[WSG] using html elements on javascript

Hi,    I have a simple little script I use for protecting email addresses from spammers...  problems is that using the 'bold - strong or b' elements within are not allowed in xhtml strict markup.Can anyone help me with a solution please? sample safemail('shirazman','

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