Re: [WSG] Site check

2007-11-17 Thread James Jeffery
Usability - Poor One off the reasons is viewing your web gallery annoyed me. I had to click through 3 pages to view the gallery and each time the flash too a while to load. - There is to much flash on the site that does not need to be there. - Colors are poor I could point out alo of things

[WSG] AccessResearch // Page Check

2007-11-17 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
Hi, http://rahulgonsalves.com/research/site/ I'm throwing together a quick site to try and fund my travel to an accessibility conference. I haven't had too much time to check it, or think it through, but I would appreciate a page check, and general suggestions/comments. Also, I don't have

[WSG] IE float/background - I am stumped

2007-11-17 Thread Likely, James A.
I am working on some new templates and am having a hard time figuring out what is going on. I all browsers it works as it should but in IE6 it is not. From the look sof it, the background image is going over top of the floating divs. If I take out the background from: #content {

RE: [WSG] IE float/background - I am stumped

2007-11-17 Thread Likely, James A.
Sorry I forgot to add the link. http://joekiosk.com/whs/inside.html View this in any other browser it works. But look in IE6 and you will see what I am talking about. Thanks James -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Likely, James A. Sent: Sat 11/17/2007 10:57 AM

Re: [WSG] IE float/background - I am stumped

2007-11-17 Thread akella
Hi James I guess removing position:relative for #content will help. Another option is to set position:relative for your floats. May be you will need to play a bit with z-index after that. it would be great if you could upload this code to the internet for us to see the problem. hth On

Re: [WSG] AccessResearch // Page Check

2007-11-17 Thread James Jeffery
- The first thing that struck me was the blatent missues of the em element. - Missing title attribute from your anchor's - No indication as to who or what your site is about. At least a logo or name. - Why use XHTML? If you are not using anything XML related you should be using HTML. HTML is

[WSG] Weird feature in Opera

2007-11-17 Thread Rob Mason
Thanks for the help regarding JavaScript all...very useful indeed. I have a poser for you, one that my simple monkey brain is finding hard to comprehend. On my site (www.spongeproject.co.uk ) I have a background image set on the body and repeated. IE6, IE7, FF and Safari all behave themselves.

Re: [WSG] AccessResearch // Page Check

2007-11-17 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
http://rahulgonsalves.com/research/site/ James Jeffery wrote: - Missing title attribute from your anchor's Not every anchor needs extra advisory information, so I don't see an issue here. - Why use XHTML? If you are not using anything XML related you should be using HTML. Why not? Who

Re: [WSG] Weird feature in Opera

2007-11-17 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Rob Mason wrote: (www.spongeproject.co.uk ) Opera displays the image as intended, but also repeats 50px or so of the same image again, about half way up the page. I have no idea what's going on. On a local copy I gave the image a roundtrip through photoshop without making /any/ changes to

Re: [WSG] AccessResearch // Page Check

2007-11-17 Thread Kevin Lennon
James Jeffery wrote: - The first thing that struck me was the blatent missues of the em element. - Missing title attribute from your anchor's - No indication as to who or what your site is about. At least a logo or name. - Why use XHTML? If you are not using anything XML related you should be

Re: [WSG] AccessResearch // Page Check

2007-11-17 Thread James Jeffery
Not every anchor needs extra advisory information, so I don't see an issue here. The title attribute is optional, but a title can help to clearly and accurately describe a link and for a website thats based around accessibility he should be using the title attribute where needed. He has an

Re: [WSG] AccessResearch // Page Check

2007-11-17 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
James Jeffery wrote: Not every anchor needs extra advisory information, so I don't see an issue here. The title attribute is optional, but a title can help to clearly and accurately describe a link and for a website thats based around accessibility he should be using the title attribute where

Re: [WSG] AccessResearch // Page Check

2007-11-17 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
On 18-Nov-07, at 1:18 AM, James Jeffery wrote: - The first thing that struck me was the blatent missues of the em element. grinI like misusing me some ems! Seriously, though, yes. I am using a technique that I saw on Stu Nicholls site, CSS Play [1], which uses ems. Using a div, or a

Re: [WSG] AccessResearch // Page Check

2007-11-17 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
On 18-Nov-07, at 5:06 AM, James Jeffery wrote: He has an abbreviation in his link: 'FAQ' which should be wrapped in abbr/abbr and he should use the title attribute here to add more clarity. Thanks for catching this one James. I did forget to add an abbreviation for this. I have updated the

Re: [WSG] AccessResearch // Page Check

2007-11-17 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
Ah shoot, mixed up my footnotes. I need some tea. Apologies to all for increasing your inbox count. The Ragged Float technique used by Stu Nicholls on CSS Play is located here: http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/flow.html The WSG article on using xHTML versus using HTML is located here:

Re: [WSG] AccessResearch // Page Check

2007-11-17 Thread David Laakso
Rahul Gonsalves wrote: Hi, http://rahulgonsalves.com/research/site/ I'm throwing together a quick site to try and fund my travel to an accessibility conference. I haven't had too much time to check it, or think it through, but I would appreciate a page check, and general