Re: [WSG] Skip to Content?

2007-07-05 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
On 04-Jul-07, at 9:29 PM, Sander Aarts wrote: Angel Martin Alganza schreef: On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 10:19:51PM +0200, Sander Aarts wrote: I alway make skip links to all major parts of the page, being the different levels of navigation, main content, sub content (side bar) and sometimes even

Re: [WSG] Developing Accessible Applications With Flash, Asp and visual Basic

2007-07-05 Thread Jixor - Stephen I
You would be better off to use html and javascript with some flash for your a/v components. Marvin Hunkin wrote: Hi. now just wondering, can i develop flash web applications, using jaws, and say using a programming interface say like microsoft visual studio, asp, or the flash development

Re: [WSG] Who's A Front End Developer?

2007-07-05 Thread Paul Novitski
The datastore/backend guys will just make sure the data is in a nice format (JSON or something) and that its accessible from a url - their job is done my friends. Ouch. For me this points up the absurdity of the demarcation between front-end and back-end developer. Unless each of us

Re: [WSG] Who's A Front End Developer?

2007-07-05 Thread Barney Carroll
I think the question should not be which languages are you good at?, but what you have comprehensive awareness of. I'm also inclined to believe that's what ppk is likely to be focussing on - because just as much as he has a great sense of design and is one of javascript's greatest, his

[WSG] Colour Contrast Analyser for MAC now available

2007-07-05 Thread Steven Faulkner
Cedric Trevisan of TPG (Europe) and WAT-C has developed a version of the Colour Contrast Analyser for the Mac OS X 10.4.6 or later [http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/contrast-analyser.html#macdownload ] It can be used to check for conformance with the WCAG 1 2 checkpoints relating to

RE: [WSG] Skip to Content?

2007-07-05 Thread Christopher M Kelly
Again, referring specifically to screen reader users, my anecdotal experience supporting several users who are blind in my job is that Rahul is most of the time correct. Good structured code and Standards Based Design with proper lists, headings, and code that's not abused is more useful to these

Re: [WSG] Who's A Front End Developer?

2007-07-05 Thread Susan Grossman
I would classify myself as a front-ender, but not because of my focus on design work - or my greater aptitude in ecma, css and markup compared to my php, asp or python. I think the greater qualification comes in standards awareness and interest/participation in the development of

[WSG] Re: digest for wsg@webstandardsgroup.org

2007-07-05 Thread Jojo Esposa
Kindly enumerate to us what meta tags must be retained and what tags that we can do without. This I presume is based on the current standards. Thanks. :-) jojo www.pwag.org www.mccid.edu.ph On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 09:35:28 1000, wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote: From:

Re: [WSG] Who's A Front End Developer?

2007-07-05 Thread Sander Aarts
Hi, I'm quite amazed by the somewhat nervous responses of people who are afraid of 'strict seperation', cause there is no such thing and there won't be any just because you use the term front-end developer'. Of course front-end developers need some basic knowledge of other areas of web