Re: [WSG] The use of asterisks in forms to indicate required fields

2007-05-27 Thread Terrence Wood

Thierry Koblentz wrote:
Some clients do not want [required on the end of each label], they  
think it pollutes the visual.


Understandable - most people buy a design from a visual - not  
actually using the product they are commissioning. This is a great  
way to bring usability into the conversation by talking about how  
frustrating it is when you make a mistake filling in forms, and what  
the client can do to help their customers avoid a frustrating  
experience.


kind regards,
Terrence Wood.




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Re: [WSG] dl v table for form layout

2007-05-27 Thread Katrina

Nick Fitzsimons wrote:

While I agree that use of lists, tables or definition lists is mere 
abuse, a fieldset is for grouping thematically related controls and 
labels:

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#edef-FIELDSET

So a hypothetical (semantic!) form could/should look something like this 
(I'm sure there are at least a million things wrong with my example - 
pretend those errors aren't there):



form action= method=
   fieldsetlegendThe legend for the form/legend

  fieldsetlabel for=nameYou Name/labelinput type=text 
name=name id=name/fieldset
  fieldsetlabel for=poetFavourite poet/labelinput 
type=text id=poet name=poet/fieldset
  fieldsetlabel for=dinosaurFavourite dinsaur/labelinput 
type=text name=dinosaur id=dinosaur/fieldset


   /fieldset
/form


My point being that fieldset could be used to wrap label and input pairs?

I always thought you had to have a group of controls (more than one 
input field).


I note that in Mike's example, he using a br / in order to achieve a 
block-level style visual. Surely that should be avoidable?

http://green-beast.com/gbcf/gbcf_form.php

If the fieldset to contain label/input pairs is true, it would be 
exciting because it would mean that the form would look reasonable in 
vanilla and could maintain semantics.


Kat


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Re: [WSG] dl v table for form layout

2007-05-27 Thread Terrence Wood


On 27/05/2007, at 7:58 PM, Katrina wrote:
My point being that fieldset could be used to wrap label and input  
pairs?


No. fieldset is to group related controls, not labels and controls.


kind regards
Terrence Wood.


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Re: [WSG] dl v table for form layout

2007-05-27 Thread Katrina

Terrence Wood wrote:


On 27/05/2007, at 7:58 PM, Katrina wrote:

My point being that fieldset could be used to wrap label and input pairs?


No. fieldset is to group related controls, not labels and controls.




From http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/interact/forms.html#h-17.10
The FIELDSET element allows authors to group thematically related 
controls and labels. 


In some sense, the label and input are thematically related.

I understand that a legend is not required for each fieldset, and not 
including a legend for the label/input pair, it avoids the screen reader 
reading it out. Thus avoiding the situation where the legend is the same 
as the label.


Would using fieldset be be harmful to accessibility, if used in this way 
(for label/input pairs without the legend)?


Kat


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Re: [WSG] dl v table for form layout

2007-05-27 Thread Stuart Foulstone
The label associates the label-text with the input, i.e. their
realtionship is already firmly established and needs no other
confirmation.

The fieldset is to group together multiple inputs: to add stucture in long
complex forms.

Moreover, if multiple inputs are expected (since this is what the
standards say), then confusion and accessibility problems may well result
from this abuse of the fieldset tag.



On Sun, May 27, 2007 9:30 am, Katrina wrote:
 Terrence Wood wrote:

 On 27/05/2007, at 7:58 PM, Katrina wrote:
 My point being that fieldset could be used to wrap label and input
 pairs?

 No. fieldset is to group related controls, not labels and controls.



  From http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/interact/forms.html#h-17.10
 The FIELDSET element allows authors to group thematically related
 controls and labels. 

 In some sense, the label and input are thematically related.

 I understand that a legend is not required for each fieldset, and not
 including a legend for the label/input pair, it avoids the screen reader
 reading it out. Thus avoiding the situation where the legend is the same
 as the label.

 Would using fieldset be be harmful to accessibility, if used in this way
 (for label/input pairs without the legend)?

 Kat


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Re: [WSG] dl v table for form layout

2007-05-27 Thread Mike at Green-Beast.com
Katrina wrote:

 I note that in Mike's example, he using
 a br / in order to achieve a block-level
 style visual. Surely that should be avoidable?
 http://green-beast.com/gbcf/gbcf_form.php

Certainly it would be avoidable using label { display : block; } but I 
wanted the form to retain its current organization regardless of 
CSS-controls. I do believe this is an acceptable (as in non-harmful) use of 
the break element.

 If the fieldset to contain label/input pairs is true

It probably shouldn't be used for pairing as you describe, but rather a 
group of inputs that all share some common-ground. In my case I use them to 
contain groups of required versus non-required inputs as well as the type of 
information sought (contact info, etc.). I should have probably not done 
that to the submit type input though. That, I'm thinking it would have 
better left in the form's main fieldset and not given its own since it's 
grouped in with the form itself (a whole-form control) so to speak.

Cheers.
Mike Cherim


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Nick Fitzsimons wrote:

 While I agree that use of lists, tables or definition lists is mere
 abuse, a fieldset is for grouping thematically related controls and
 labels:
 http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#edef-FIELDSET

So a hypothetical (semantic!) form could/should look something like this
(I'm sure there are at least a million things wrong with my example -
pretend those errors aren't there):


form action= method=
fieldsetlegendThe legend for the form/legend

   fieldsetlabel for=nameYou Name/labelinput type=text
name=name id=name/fieldset
   fieldsetlabel for=poetFavourite poet/labelinput
type=text id=poet name=poet/fieldset
   fieldsetlabel for=dinosaurFavourite dinsaur/labelinput
type=text name=dinosaur id=dinosaur/fieldset

/fieldset
/form


My point being that fieldset could be used to wrap label and input pairs?

I always thought you had to have a group of controls (more than one
input field).

I note that in Mike's example, he using a br / in order to achieve a
block-level style visual. Surely that should be avoidable?
http://green-beast.com/gbcf/gbcf_form.php

If the fieldset to contain label/input pairs is true, it would be
exciting because it would mean that the form would look reasonable in
vanilla and could maintain semantics.

Kat


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Re: [WSG] The use of asterisks in forms to indicate required fields

2007-05-27 Thread Paul Novitski



Thierry Koblentz wrote:

Some clients do not want [required on the end of each label], they
think it pollutes the visual.



I'm sure the origin of the asterisk to indicate required fields was 
literally that of a footnote:


Name:* 
Email:* 

* Required field

As Thierry indicates, the original rationale behind this structure 
was undoubtedly simply to avoid cluttering a form occupying limited 
real estate with the word 'required' beside every required field.


However, it would be clumsy and irritating to mark this up so that 
each asterisk were literally a hyperlink that jumped to the footnote 
explaining that it was required.


At the same time, the word 'required' (at least in English) is so 
short that I don't think its repetition would be irritating on an 
aural page (which I suppose might be just my lack of sensitivity as 
I'm not a screen reader user).


All this makes me try to come up with a way to present the asterisks 
as footnote indicators visually but not aurally.  One could present 
the asterisks as background images on the abbrev elements, but as 
such they wouldn't scale.  If they were scalable foreground images, 
they'd need an alt:


img src=asterisk.jpg alt=required class=required /
img.required {width: 1em;}

The problem would then be how to mark this up:

* Required fields

As plain text it would make sense to the visual users as the referent 
for the asterisks but would seem a bit nonsensical to listeners.


Musingly,

Paul
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Re: [WSG] The use of asterisks in forms to indicate required fields

2007-05-27 Thread Mike at Green-Beast.com
Paul Novitski wrote:

 As Thierry indicates, the original rationale behind
 this structure was undoubtedly simply to avoid
 cluttering a form occupying limited real estate
 with the word 'required' beside every required field.

That's why I like my technique of using fieldsets to group the required 
inputs. It serves the purpose, doesn't clutter, and doesn't rely on 
symbolism (and extra mark-up to make said symbolism more accessible).

 fieldset
  legendRequired Contact Info:/legend
   label for=nameEnter your full name:br /
input type=text id=name name=name value= /
   /label
   label for=emailEnter your email address:br /
input type=text id=email name=email value= /
   /label
 /fieldset

 fieldset
  legendOptional Contact Info:/legend
   label for=phoneEnter your phone number:br /
input type=text id=phone name=phone value= /
   /label
   label for=urlEnter your web site address:br /
input type=text id=url name=url value=http://; /
   /label
 /fieldset

Cheers.
Mike Cherim
http://green-beast.com/



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RE: [WSG] The use of asterisks in forms to indicate required fields

2007-05-27 Thread Thierry Koblentz
 On Behalf Of Paul Novitski

 All this makes me try to come up with a way to present the asterisks
 as footnote indicators visually but not aurally.  One could present
 the asterisks as background images on the abbrev elements, but as
 such they wouldn't scale.  If they were scalable foreground images,
 they'd need an alt:
 
  img src=asterisk.jpg alt=required class=required /
  img.required {width: 1em;}


 The problem would then be how to mark this up:
 
  * Required fields

You're right, that's tricky, but the image idea is interesting.
I like Mike's use of the legend element, but the problem I see with that
approach is that Required Contact Info is read before every single
label...

So what about going with something *very simple*, just using an em for
example:

Required fields are displayed in italic span class=pa(read with
emphasis)/span. 

.pa { position:absolute;left:-px }

label for=emailemEmail/em:/label
input type=text id=email name=email value= /

English is not my native language so I'm sure the wording could be improved
to makes sense in IE, JAWS, LYNX but that would be the idea. Then we could
abandon the meaningless spans used within the labels.

Would that make sense? The issue of course would be to make *sure*
screen-reader users get the info line. Anything special that can be used
when the cursor goes into form mode?

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RE: [WSG] The use of asterisks in forms to indicate required fields

2007-05-27 Thread Paul Novitski

At 5/27/2007 11:41 AM, Thierry Koblentz wrote:

I like Mike's use of the legend element, but the problem I see with that
approach is that Required Contact Info is read before every single
label...


What if it were simply the word required?

pEnter your contact information:/p

fieldset
legendRequired:/legend

label for=nameName:br /
input type=text id=name name=name value= /
/label
...

That would vocalize required name, required email address, 
required password, etc.  That doesn't seem so egregious to me, and 
all of the suggestions of adding a required markup to each input 
field will surely produce at least that much baggage to the aural experience.


(I've shortened Mike's suggested labels, e.g. Enter your full name 
to simply Name.  Doesn't the aural user agent make it amply clear 
that this is a form and that each input field is an input field?  On 
that assumption I wouldn't consider it necessary to repeat Enter 
your each time, but I'm open to being corrected on that point.)


Regards,

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RE: [WSG] The use of asterisks in forms to indicate required fields

2007-05-27 Thread Thierry Koblentz
 On Behalf Of Mordechai Peller


  The problem would then be how to mark this up:
 
  * Required fields
 
  As plain text it would make sense to the visual users as the referent
  for the asterisks but would seem a bit nonsensical to listeners.
 Perhaps, leave the asterisk as an asterisk and mark it up as such:
 
 pdfn*/dfn Required fields/p

Nice


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Re: [WSG] Mocking up web interfaces

2007-05-27 Thread oa berg


24 maj 2007 kl. 01.22 skrev Douglas Reith:

Just a quick one - what do people most commonly mock up web site  
designs in? (Photoshop?)


Hi Douglas,

I've just scanned this thread and agree about Photoshop, Fireworks  
(which is very handy when creating designed flows by the help of the  
Frames). But I see that no one have mentioned Axure. It is the best  
application (Windows, requiring .NET 2) I've worked with when the  
need is to model interactions and form based web applications. It is  
indeed not a pixel design tool but has its clear benefits when your  
need to rapid prototype.


Give it a try and I think you will like it. Demo at http:// 
www.axure.com/demo.aspx

30-days free trial: http://www.axure.com/downloads.aspx

Cheers
/oa


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Re: [WSG] The use of asterisks in forms to indicate required fields

2007-05-27 Thread Mike at Green-Beast.com
Paul Novitski wrote:

 What if it were simply the word required?

   pEnter your contact information:/p

   fieldset
   legendRequired:/legend

   label for=nameName:br /
   input type=text id=name name=name value= /
   /label
   ...

 That would vocalize required name,
 required email address,
 required password, etc.

Oh, Paul, you da man. I do like that suggestion very much. It is aurally 
perfect (a lot less wordy) and visually precise. Very good!

Cheers.
Mike







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Re: [WSG] Converting font size from pt to % or em

2007-05-27 Thread Felix Miata
On 2007/05/25 17:47 (GMT-0400) Philip Kiff apparently typed:

 Felix Miata wrote:

 What matters is:
 [...]
 5-that any deviation a designer makes from 100% is
 arbitrary, as it's made from an entirely unknown starting point

 100% of the visitor's choice equals respect for the visitor.

 I'm not really convinced that this is an issue of respect for the users of
 one's site.

 The reference that Kane provided to Owen Briggs's charts over at
 thenoodleincident.com I think demonstrates how the operating system
 manufacturers and browser companies are the ones who have been arbitrary
 about what 100% font size on the body element means.  Here is a link to Owen
 Briggs's page discussing Sane CSS Typography:
 http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/typography/index.html

That's the 2nd time in this thread that poison-pill anachronism has been
included. Its focus is on pixel perfection with tiny fonts that provides at
most marginal utility when applied to the much larger pixel sizes necessary
on modern high resolution/high PPI displays. It only applied when the very
overwhelming majority of browsers had 16px defaults *and* most users were
running sub-~72DPI displays. It misleads the uninitiated into thinking
mousetype is an OK standard for web pages.

 As Kane pointed out, and as Owen Briggs's screenshot studies demonstrate,
 the use of 76% as the body font size is to create a more even base-line
 size across multiple browsers.  This 76% figure is not therefore entirely
 arbitrary:

The arbitrariness is an illusion induced by a mindset that all browsers
should make every web look like a clone of that page in every other web
browser. Modern browsers do a remarkable job of providing the similarity
among themselves that they do, which is due in no small part to the
standards bodies considerable efforts to create sensible and achievable
standards. Different, within reason, should be a perfectly OK standard.

 setting the body font size to 65%-76% or so is the size that

76% was a particular sweet spot for a particular period that has since
passed. Any deviation from 76% did and does move the result out of that
anachronistic sweet spot.

 designers have come up with over the years that allows them the most freedom
 to produce designs that appear similiar across different browsers and
 different operating platforms.

That particular basis doesn't make it any less arbitrary with regard to
users. A designer does not know the particulars of particular visitors'
local environments, and has no basis to know anything other than 100% basing
could possibly be more usable or more accessible for any environment outside
the one he is currently situated in.

 These levels don't come from any disrespect
 felt towards site visitors, but from a disrespect for the arbitrariness of
 different browser defaults and a desire to override the choices made by
 those browsers.

65%-80% produces a uniformity of substantially reduced accessibility and
usability that 100% basing does not do. Whether 65%-80% is intended to
disrespect visitors is irrelevant; only the fact that it does is.

It's unrealistic to strive for pixel perfection across all browsers, so to
use undersized fonts purely in the interest of achieving that goal is
fighting the inherent nature and strength of the web rather than embracing
it, besides disrespecting visitors.

 apparent arbitrariness of the 100% alternative.

Because no designer knows the real world starting point outside his local
world, any deviation from 100% is inherently arbitrary.

OTOH, the 100% Easy-2-Read Standard is a standard worthy of embracing to
the fullest. http://www.informationarchitects.jp/100e2r?v=4
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Re: [WSG] Converting font size from pt to % or em

2007-05-27 Thread Patrick H. Lauke

Felix Miata wrote:


Because no designer knows the real world starting point outside his local
world, any deviation from 100% is inherently arbitrary.

OTOH, the 100% Easy-2-Read Standard is a standard worthy of embracing to
the fullest. http://www.informationarchitects.jp/100e2r?v=4


Though I agree with the sentiment, the fact remains that the large 
majority of websites out there do size text below 100% (and yes, more 
often than not around the 75%ish mark). If a user perceives that size to 
be a problem, she more likely than not has bumped up the default text 
size of the browser to compensate for her daily browsing activity. Going 
to 100% could then, potentially, go the opposite way and make the text 
too big for her. Couple that with a client's habit of comparing the site 
they're commissioning with the majority of other sites out there (and 
the resultant moaning of why is the text on our site bigger than on 
competitor X's site?)...


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Re: [WSG] Converting font size from pt to % or em

2007-05-27 Thread Felix Miata
On 2007/05/27 23:33 (GMT+0100) Patrick H. Lauke apparently typed:

 Felix Miata wrote:

 Because no designer knows the real world starting point outside his local
 world, any deviation from 100% is inherently arbitrary.

 OTOH, the 100% Easy-2-Read Standard is a standard worthy of embracing to
 the fullest. http://www.informationarchitects.jp/100e2r?v=4

 Though I agree with the sentiment, the fact remains that the large 
 majority of websites out there do size text below 100% (and yes, more 
 often than not around the 75%ish mark). If a user perceives that size to 
 be a problem, she more likely than not has bumped up the default text 
 size of the browser to compensate for her daily browsing activity. Going 

Probably so with users of modern browsers, but the most common browser in
use remains IE6, which with many users don't bother to try to bump the text
size up on due to its inexplicable inability to make text bigger on the
unfortunate mass of sites that still undersize text using px.

 to 100% could then, potentially, go the opposite way and make the text 
 too big for her.

Too big is not the same class of problem that is too small. It happens to me
routinely on 62.5% body sites, but it's a magnitudes smaller problem than
mousetype and px-width containers.

 Couple that with a client's habit of comparing the site
 they're commissioning with the majority of other sites out there (and 
 the resultant moaning of why is the text on our site bigger than on 
 competitor X's site?)...

Your mission, should you choose to embrace it, is to convince the client
that maintaining an anachronistic practice is the wrong thing to do, and
that doing the right thing is always the right thing to do. Maybe this will
help whenever that discussion ensues.
http://www.lighthouse.org/accessibility/top-10/
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Re: [WSG] Converting font size from pt to % or em

2007-05-27 Thread Felix Miata
On 2007/05/25 17:54 (GMT-0700) Paul Novitski apparently typed:

 At 5/25/2007 03:10 PM, Christian Montoya wrote:

not all designers set
body font size to 62.5% when creating websites. It's enough to start
at 100% and set nested containers to fractions of that... just do the
math starting off from 16px. The point that Felix is making is that
setting the body to something small like 62.5% is very destructive,
since user stylesheets and user settings usually just override the
body rule (and ruin all your specific rules).

 ruin?  Wouldn't it just make everything larger if they overrode the 
 stylesheet with, say, body {font-size: 100%}?

Sort of, but Gecko browsers behave somewhat like IE does when it encounters
no explicit non-em font-size set on HTML or BODY and child elements are
sized in em, compounding the intended effect of the em-specified sizes.
That's what the images, particularly the last two, in my upthread post at
http://webstandardsgroup.org/manage/archive.cfm?uid=C46B1968-B1CC-B29E-B1E7CE11FA5AD23C
were supposed to demonstrate.

 I guess it will depend on which aspects of the layout are widthed in 
 ems, but for most pages I'd think it would just start you out at a 
 larger degree of [text and/or layout] magnification.

It's pretty routine that I must on 62.5% pages turn off author styles in
order to use the page, this due to content being allocated inadequate width
to fit without hiding or overlapping.
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Re: [WSG] The use of asterisks in forms to indicate required fields

2007-05-27 Thread Mordechai Peller

Paul Novitski wrote:

fieldset
legendRequired:/legend

label for=nameName:br /
input type=text id=name name=name 
value= /

/label
...

That would vocalize required name, required email address, 
required password, etc. 
Interesting; but what if you need (as is commonly the case) non-required 
fields interspersed with required ones?


Instead of using a legend, how's about:

label.required span {
   position : absolute;
   left : -px;
}
label class=requiredspanRequired/span...


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Re: [WSG] The use of asterisks in forms to indicate required fields

2007-05-27 Thread Mike at Green-Beast.com
Mordechai Peller wrote:

 Interesting; but what if you need (as is commonly 
 the case) non-required fields interspersed with 
 required ones?

Optional I suppose. Just group them accordingly using the technique.

fieldset
  legendOptional:/legend
labelPhone 
  input [...] /
/label
labelWeb site 
  input [...] /
/label
/fieldset

In a new fieldset grouping optional inputs.

Cheers.
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RE: [WSG] The use of asterisks in forms to indicate required fields

2007-05-27 Thread Thierry Koblentz
 On Behalf Of Mordechai Peller
 Instead of using a legend, how's about:
 
 label.required span {
 position : absolute;
 left : -px;
 }
 label class=requiredspanRequired/span...

This has been suggested already, but I don't think it's as clean as using 
legend.

As a side note, I don't think we'd need to use a class if we consider that only 
the required fields would have a label containing a span.

labelspanRequired/span...

label span {...}

---
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Re: [WSG] The use of asterisks in forms to indicate required fields

2007-05-27 Thread John Faulds
But sometimes at least one phone number might be required but others are  
optional (e.g. mobile, home, fax etc) - doesn't seem as logical to split  
your phone number fields up into different groupings.


On Mon, 28 May 2007 10:26:31 +1000, Mike at Green-Beast.com  
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Mordechai Peller wrote:


Interesting; but what if you need (as is commonly
the case) non-required fields interspersed with
required ones?


Optional I suppose. Just group them accordingly using the technique.

fieldset
  legendOptional:/legend
labelPhone
  input [...] /
/label
labelWeb site
  input [...] /
/label
/fieldset

In a new fieldset grouping optional inputs.

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Re: [WSG] Fieldsets in IE7

2007-05-27 Thread James Ellis

Hi James

Got any example URL's? Maybe you need to place a background colour on the em
? fieldsets and legends are notoriously difficult to present with CSS - they
seem to have non-overrideable styles that are put in place by the
OS/Browser. Like where the legend is placed...

Cheers
James

On 5/27/07, James Gollan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Has anyone encountered issues with IE7 rendering fieldset borders
strangely when a label contains the em element, and do you have any idea
of how to resolve it?

The problem I have is that IE7 is placing extra borders behind the labels
that contain the em - it looks a little like a strikethrough effect. I
remember IE6 having strange problems with em elements, but this form is
rendering properely in IE6.

hmm, wierd




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[WSG] Site Review (www.richardson.co.nz)

2007-05-27 Thread Samuel Richardson

G'day all,

I've decided to make the jump from full time web development to
freelance work. Mostly front end development, (X)HTML/CSS/JavaScript
development etc.

Anyway, to support myself, I've created a portfolio here:

www.richardson.co.nz

I just want to make sure I haven't missed anything obvious with the
build phase of things. If you've all got time to have a look at the
code/design and give me some feedback that would be fantastic.

It's somewhat off topic but I don't think my copy writing is too hot,
if anyone has some suggestions on how to present myself better then
I'd love to hear them. I'm going to be dealing strictly with design
companies rather then the public so I've tried to keep thing short.

Thanks heaps!

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[WSG] Accessible Photoshop and flash

2007-05-27 Thread marvin hunkin

Hi.
doing certificate iv in web site development at my local college.
now for second semester, will be using photo shop, to manipulate 2 and 3 d 
objects.

now, is there any way to do this accessibly with jaws?
also, need to use flash, to create 2 and 3 d buttons, objects, etc.
is there an accessible way to code this?
let me know asap.
cheers Marvin.

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Re: [WSG] Site Review (www.richardson.co.nz)

2007-05-27 Thread John Faulds
Looks good. Only comment I'd make is about your skills and their ratings:  
at the moment that information is only really of value to people already  
in the web dev game and not really useful to anyone who doesn't know  
anything about web development but who wants a website done. If you're not  
really targetting the latter sort of people, and are only looking to  
outsource your work to other agencies, then what you've got is probably  
fine.


On Mon, 28 May 2007 11:05:01 +1000, Samuel Richardson  
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



G'day all,

I've decided to make the jump from full time web development to
freelance work. Mostly front end development, (X)HTML/CSS/JavaScript
development etc.

Anyway, to support myself, I've created a portfolio here:

www.richardson.co.nz

I just want to make sure I haven't missed anything obvious with the
build phase of things. If you've all got time to have a look at the
code/design and give me some feedback that would be fantastic.

It's somewhat off topic but I don't think my copy writing is too hot,
if anyone has some suggestions on how to present myself better then
I'd love to hear them. I'm going to be dealing strictly with design
companies rather then the public so I've tried to keep thing short.

Thanks heaps!





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Re: [WSG] The use of asterisks in forms to indicate required fields

2007-05-27 Thread Mike at Green-Beast.com
John Faulds wrote:

 But sometimes at least one phone number might
 be required but others are optional (e.g. mobile,
 home, fax etc) - doesn't seem as logical to split
 your phone number fields up into different
 groupings.

Great point, John. That's a conundrum for sure. And it will happen, the 
frequency thereof is probably in proportion to a form's complexity. In the 
example you illustrate it might be okay to stick to the required/optional 
thing, like so.

Enter contact info in the form below.

fieldset
legend: required
label/input: name
label/input: email
label/input: phone

fieldset
legend: optional
label/input: fax
label/inout: web

But I can definitely see instances where that just woudn't do and the 
logical groupings wouldn't allow such an easy solution. That's when we'd 
have to revisit one of the other methods we've been comtemplating I suppose, 
treating each occurence independantly unless a one-size-fits-all solution is 
found. A likely candidate might be putting the word in the in the label.

fieldset
legend: foo stuff
label/input: required foo one
label/input: optional foo two
label/input: required foo red
label/input: optional foo blue

:-)

Cheers.
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Re: [WSG] The use of asterisks in forms to indicate required fields

2007-05-27 Thread Terrence Wood


Mike at Green-Beast.com wrote:


A likely candidate might be putting the word in the in the label.


which will bring us back to doe. doe a deer,  a female deer [from the  
sound of music]...


I said:

How about just including (required) on the end of each label,


Then, Thierry Koblentz wrote:
Some clients do not want this at all, they think it pollutes the  
visual.




kind regards,
Terrence Wood.




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Re: [WSG] Converting font size from pt to % or em

2007-05-27 Thread Andrew Cunningham

Christian Montoya wrote:



I hate to make a quick reply to a long post, but not all designers set
body font size to 62.5% when creating websites. It's enough to start
at 100% and set nested containers to fractions of that... just do the
math starting off from 16px. The point that Felix is making is that
setting the body to something small like 62.5% is very destructive,
since user stylesheets and user settings usually just override the
body rule (and ruin all your specific rules).



The practice of setting body font size to 62.5% has some very 
interesting assumptions built in. Any style sheet designed using this 
supposition would be inappropriate for a fully internationalised site.


Andrew

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Re: [WSG] Site Review (www.richardson.co.nz)

2007-05-27 Thread David Laakso

Samuel Richardson wrote:

G'day all,

I've decided to make the jump from full time web development to
freelance work. Mostly front end development, (X)HTML/CSS/JavaScript
development etc.

Anyway, to support myself, I've created a portfolio here:

www.richardson.co.nz

I just want to make sure I haven't missed anything obvious with the
build phase of things. If you've all got time to have a look at the
code/design and give me some feedback that would be fantastic.

It's somewhat off topic but I don't think my copy writing is too hot,
if anyone has some suggestions on how to present myself better then
I'd love to hear them. I'm going to be dealing strictly with design
companies rather then the public so I've tried to keep thing short.

Thanks heaps!




I only looked at the home page.

A piece of the browser scrollbar (very strange) is covering the last 
numeral of what I assume is your phone number in Safari and Mac FF and 
Opera.

The page is ok in XP FF, Opera, and IE7 and IE6.

The start point(before scaling the fonts) of the content text in Mac 
Opera is almost unreadable for me (I am at 1680).



Best,
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Re: [WSG] Site Review (www.richardson.co.nz)

2007-05-27 Thread Jermayn Parker

risk of going OT but I would like to ask you why did you choose a one page
info page with anchor links going down to the content???

I thought multi pages would be the way to go

apart from this I do not really have any problems with it, the menu is a bit
small though

Thanks and sorry




On 5/28/07, Samuel Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


G'day all,

I've decided to make the jump from full time web development to
freelance work. Mostly front end development, (X)HTML/CSS/JavaScript
development etc.

Anyway, to support myself, I've created a portfolio here:

www.richardson.co.nz

I just want to make sure I haven't missed anything obvious with the
build phase of things. If you've all got time to have a look at the
code/design and give me some feedback that would be fantastic.

It's somewhat off topic but I don't think my copy writing is too hot,
if anyone has some suggestions on how to present myself better then
I'd love to hear them. I'm going to be dealing strictly with design
companies rather then the public so I've tried to keep thing short.

Thanks heaps!

--
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Freelance Web Developer
www.richardson.co.nz | 0405 472 748


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Re: [WSG] The use of asterisks in forms to indicate required fields

2007-05-27 Thread Mike at Green-Beast.com
Terrence Wood wrote:

 Mike at Green-Beast.com wrote:

 A likely candidate might be putting the
 word in the in the label.

 which will bring us back to doe. doe a deer,
 a female deer [from the sound of music]...

 I said:
 How about just including (required) on the
 end of each label,

 Then, Thierry Koblentz wrote:
 Some clients do not want this at all, they
 think it pollutes the visual.


Hello Terrence,

Yep. That's why I preceded that with:

 That's when we'd have to revisit one of the
 other methods we've been contemplating I suppose.

If that's the client's request it'd be time to wear one of the two hats we 
are forced to put on sometimes:

1) Wizard hat to figure out the best way deal with the situation at hand.
2) Salesman hat to convince the client of the benefits of usability and 
accessibility.

Cheers.
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Re: [WSG] The use of asterisks in forms to indicate required fields

2007-05-27 Thread Nick Fitzsimons

On 28 May 2007, at 03:42:55, Terrence Wood wrote:


Then, Thierry Koblentz wrote:
Some clients do not want this at all, they think it pollutes the  
visual.


That's the trouble with this job: clients who won't listen to  
professional advice. It makes me wonder what they think they're  
paying for in the first place :-)


I wonder how they treat their dentists...

Cheers,

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Re: [WSG] Site Review (www.richardson.co.nz)

2007-05-27 Thread Mary-Anne Nayler

Hi Sam,

It looks great but there are lots of grammar errors. I also noticed that 
in your CV you seem to be missing employment details on your current 
position?
When I scrolled down to where you have rated your skills there is a 
scrollbar thing happening that looks ugly and obscures some of the text. 
(I'm using Mozilla 1.7.2) Also, I think if I didn't work in Web dev, I 
wouldn't understand what all that meant... if I was a customer I'd want 
to know what is ASP, PHP etc and what can it do for me and my web site?


Cheers,

Mary-Anne

Samuel Richardson wrote, On 28/05/07 11:05 AM:


G'day all,

I've decided to make the jump from full time web development to
freelance work. Mostly front end development, (X)HTML/CSS/JavaScript
development etc.

Anyway, to support myself, I've created a portfolio here:

www.richardson.co.nz

I just want to make sure I haven't missed anything obvious with the
build phase of things. If you've all got time to have a look at the
code/design and give me some feedback that would be fantastic.

It's somewhat off topic but I don't think my copy writing is too hot,
if anyone has some suggestions on how to present myself better then
I'd love to hear them. I'm going to be dealing strictly with design
companies rather then the public so I've tried to keep thing short.

Thanks heaps!



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Re: [WSG] Site Review (www.richardson.co.nz)

2007-05-27 Thread Samuel Richardson

Cool, thanks for the comments. It sounds like I still have a few cross
browser issues to work out, lucky I just bought a Mac :D

The portfolio is strictly for design agencies to get an idea of what I
can do rather then the public. I went with a one page design to get
the content across quickly, I didn't feel the site warranted multiple
pages with such little content.

I'll proof the content a bit more, that was one area I'm a little unsure on.

Thanks,

Samuel


On 5/28/07, Mary-Anne Nayler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi Sam,

It looks great but there are lots of grammar errors. I also noticed that
in your CV you seem to be missing employment details on your current
position?
When I scrolled down to where you have rated your skills there is a
scrollbar thing happening that looks ugly and obscures some of the text.
(I'm using Mozilla 1.7.2) Also, I think if I didn't work in Web dev, I
wouldn't understand what all that meant... if I was a customer I'd want
to know what is ASP, PHP etc and what can it do for me and my web site?

Cheers,

Mary-Anne

Samuel Richardson wrote, On 28/05/07 11:05 AM:

 G'day all,

 I've decided to make the jump from full time web development to
 freelance work. Mostly front end development, (X)HTML/CSS/JavaScript
 development etc.

 Anyway, to support myself, I've created a portfolio here:

 www.richardson.co.nz

 I just want to make sure I haven't missed anything obvious with the
 build phase of things. If you've all got time to have a look at the
 code/design and give me some feedback that would be fantastic.

 It's somewhat off topic but I don't think my copy writing is too hot,
 if anyone has some suggestions on how to present myself better then
 I'd love to hear them. I'm going to be dealing strictly with design
 companies rather then the public so I've tried to keep thing short.

 Thanks heaps!


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Re: [WSG] Converting font size from pt to % or em

2007-05-27 Thread Paul Novitski

At 5/27/2007 07:44 PM, Andrew Cunningham wrote:
The practice of setting body font size to 62.5% has some very 
interesting assumptions built in. Any style sheet designed using 
this supposition would be inappropriate for a fully internationalised site.



Please elaborate on this point.  Is your statement based on the 
assumption that body text will be sized at 1em, or that the column 
widths will be fixed?


Thanks,

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Re: [WSG] Converting font size from pt to % or em

2007-05-27 Thread Andrew Cunningham

Paul Novitski wrote:

At 5/27/2007 07:44 PM, Andrew Cunningham wrote:
The practice of setting body font size to 62.5% has some very 
interesting assumptions built in. Any style sheet designed using this 
supposition would be inappropriate for a fully internationalised site.



Please elaborate on this point.  Is your statement based on the 
assumption that body text will be sized at 1em, or that the column 
widths will be fixed?




Neither. My assumption is that not all fonts in all scripts are measured 
the same way and mixed script situations are even more problematic.


For Thai body text at 1.0 em with English words or phrases within the 
text, the English content would need to be approximately 0.75em  to 
match the Thai text. Setting body type to a value significantly less 
that one em will make Thai and English text (if English text is resized) 
potentially illegible.


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Re: [WSG] Site Review (www.richardson.co.nz)

2007-05-27 Thread contact

Hi Samuel:
Good work dude ;)
The site looks neat, cool and usable.

Still I have a couple of suggestions:

1) To make the headings bigger
2) Maybe provide with a simple form to get in touch with you
3) N i think copy needs to be reviewed 

otherwise looks awesome, have a look at mine to !

Best -P
www.puneetsakhuja.com 


- Original Message -
From: Samuel Richardson
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Sent:  Mon, 28 May 2007 11:05:01 +1000
Subject: [WSG] Site Review (www.richardson.co.nz)

G'day all,

I've decided to make the jump from full time web development to
freelance work. Mostly front end development, (X)HTML/CSS/JavaScript
development etc.

Anyway, to support myself, I've created a portfolio here:

www.richardson.co.nz

I just want to make sure I haven't missed anything obvious with the
build phase of things. If you've all got time to have a look at the
code/design and give me some feedback that would be fantastic.

It's somewhat off topic but I don't think my copy writing is too hot,
if anyone has some suggestions on how to present myself better then
I'd love to hear them. I'm going to be dealing strictly with design
companies rather then the public so I've tried to keep thing short.

Thanks heaps!

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Freelance Web Developer
www.richardson.co.nz | 0405 472 748


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Re: [WSG] Site Review (www.richardson.co.nz)

2007-05-27 Thread contact

I dont find anything wrong is displaying all the content on one page.
The main concern is to provide the content and information required with 
minimum clicks and in the most efficient manner, n thats the latest trend mate !

thats what i did with my website, have a look www.puneetsakhuja.com

neways good work dude, as somebody said, just the grammer etc needs to be 
reviewed.

Best -P

- Original Message -
From: Samuel Richardson
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Sent:  Mon, 28 May 2007 14:04:08 +1000
Subject: Re: [WSG] Site Review (www.richardson.co.nz)

Cool, thanks for the comments. It sounds like I still have a few cross
browser issues to work out, lucky I just bought a Mac :D

The portfolio is strictly for design agencies to get an idea of what I
can do rather then the public. I went with a one page design to get
the content across quickly, I didn't feel the site warranted multiple
pages with such little content.

I'll proof the content a bit more, that was one area I'm a little unsure on.

Thanks,

Samuel


On 5/28/07, Mary-Anne Nayler lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; wrote:
gt; Hi Sam,
gt;
gt; It looks great but there are lots of grammar errors. I also noticed that
gt; in your CV you seem to be missing employment details on your current
gt; position?
gt; When I scrolled down to where you have rated your skills there is a
gt; scrollbar thing happening that looks ugly and obscures some of the text.
gt; (I'm using Mozilla 1.7.2) Also, I think if I didn't work in Web dev, I
gt; wouldn't understand what all that meant... if I was a customer I'd want
gt; to know what is ASP, PHP etc and what can it do for me and my web site?
gt;
gt; Cheers,
gt;
gt; Mary-Anne
gt;
gt; Samuel Richardson wrote, On 28/05/07 11:05 AM:
gt;
gt; gt; G'day all,
gt; gt;
gt; gt; I've decided to make the jump from full time web development to
gt; gt; freelance work. Mostly front end development, (X)HTML/CSS/JavaScript
gt; gt; development etc.
gt; gt;
gt; gt; Anyway, to support myself, I've created a portfolio here:
gt; gt;
gt; gt; www.richardson.co.nz
gt; gt;
gt; gt; I just want to make sure I haven't missed anything obvious with the
gt; gt; build phase of things. If you've all got time to have a look at the
gt; gt; code/design and give me some feedback that would be fantastic.
gt; gt;
gt; gt; It's somewhat off topic but I don't think my copy writing is too hot,
gt; gt; if anyone has some suggestions on how to present myself better then
gt; gt; I'd love to hear them. I'm going to be dealing strictly with design
gt; gt; companies rather then the public so I've tried to keep thing short.
gt; gt;
gt; gt; Thanks heaps!
gt; gt;
gt;
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