Re: [WSG] Horizontal Scroll

2004-09-07 Thread Thorsten
ji Richard, Umm actually thinking of a container x pixels long that I can hold images in so that they can be scrolled horizontally. This is the kind of effect acheived in Flash with only a little effort but in CSS? if you use overflow:scroll; you'll get BOTH scrollbars, but in order to get the

[WSG] accessible audio-visual content

2004-09-07 Thread Vicki Berry
Hi all, I have a client who wants some audio-visual content on his site. He wants to stream interviews etc like a radio channel - but not live, at this point. There will also be some video clips. (All of these will be downloadable, and not play automatically.) The client represents a local

Re: [WSG] accessible audio-visual content

2004-09-07 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Russ linked to it before, but: http://joeclark.org/access/captioning/bpoc/ is worth a read. For video, you may consider using Magpie http://www.google.com/search?q=magpie+video+captioning For audio, a full transcript should be enough (as a separate document). Patrick Vicki Berry wrote: Hi all,

Re: [WSG] Horizontal Scroll

2004-09-07 Thread Richard Czeiger
Thanks Thorsten - but I was hoping I wouldn't have to use maths but instead utilise some kind of 'width:auto;' thing or a noWrap thing or something inherently set by the technology. If wost comes to worse, I'll just pop in some client-side JS to do the math - but i still think it's a bit of an

Re: [WSG] accessible audio-visual content

2004-09-07 Thread Jeffery Lowder
This will be the best place to start: http://www.joeclark.org/access/captioning/bpoc/ Cheers Jeff Lowder Accessibility 1st On 7/9/04 5:00 PM, Vicki Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There will also be some video clips Cheers Jeff Lowder Accessibility 1st Ph: 02 9570 9875 Mobile: 0419 350 760

Re: [WSG] accessible audio-visual content

2004-09-07 Thread Hugh Todd
Vicki, If QuickTime is acceptable as a delivery medium, you can either: 1. incorporate closed captioning via a text track or 2. play images (or Flash) of text within the audio/video window. (Either in its own space or over the top of a movie [Flash images are better for the latter].) For more

[WSG] Help! Safari wide background image bug?

2004-09-07 Thread Hugh Todd
Has anyone else encountered this bug? I'm trying to create an elastic layout, using the sliding backgrounds approach alluded to by Doug Bowman in the link provided by Russ earlier today: http://www.stopdesign.com/log/2004/09/03/liquid-bleach.html *But* there seems to be a bug in Safari. Here's

RE: [WSG] accessible audio-visual content

2004-09-07 Thread Mike Foskett
Hi all, The DRC's videos are done using a Flash front-end. Quite liked the method and currently recommending it. http://www.drc-gb.org/citizenship/talkvideos/index.asp mike 2k:)2 marqueeblink http://www.webSemantics.co.uk /marquee/blink -Original Message- From: Hugh Todd

Re: [WSG] Help! Safari wide background image bug?

2004-09-07 Thread Hugh Todd
Lea, i see the same effect in both firefox and safari - a white strip to the left of the blue background? in both Firefox and in safari. Sorry, no, that's not where the problem is. I placed the left edge of the blue background arbitrarily, just to display the issue, so you'll have to excuse the

Re: [WSG] Table within a div tag and IE

2004-09-07 Thread Jonothan Stribling
A useful cludge is to nest the table in a div and give the div a width. You should really remove all width, cellpadding, cellspacing from the table into a style. Cheers jon - Original Message - From: Nancy Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 10:43:15 -0400 Subject: [WSG]

Re: [WSG] Mangazie related to Web Standards / Web Usability

2004-09-07 Thread Susan R. Grossman
Don't know about paper magazines, but http://www.alistapart.com/ is a magazine from my point of view when you get it in xml, and http://www.digital-web.com/, and kinda/sorta http://www.simplebits.com, and a few others. here are some great books that are well thumbed on my desk.

[WSG] Comments + browser tests sought for web page (novel?) scripting

2004-09-07 Thread James Denholm-Price
Dear [EMAIL PROTECTED], I'm a newbie to the list but a fan of standards-based design and am hopefully beginning to get the hang work of some accessibility issues. I'm currently experimenting with some scripting ideas in an existing site. The old site is at http://www.kingston.ac.uk/maths but I'm

[WSG] Form layout in CSS - left column background not extending ...

2004-09-07 Thread tfleur
I have a form laid out in css, the left columns contain the headers for the fields, and the background should be grey, however it does not extend all the way to the bottom of the form when I have a multiple select which size is greater than the text on the left. I cannot come up with anything

Re: [WSG] Problems with IE rendering - what's new?

2004-09-07 Thread Bryan Davis
Since posting earlier on, I have now remedied problem #2 and improved on problem #1. I now have the layout sorted on the blog page but IE refuses to render all of the styling to elements within the page - certain borders and backgrounds don't appear. Please look at http://www.bryandavis.info/life

[WSG] Standards-based PHP tutorials for beginners...

2004-09-07 Thread Michael Nelson
... a bit much to ask? Just wondering if anyone knew of any such tutorials. Those on php.net seem as if they were written by C programmers wanting to learn php. Yet those on webmonkey are so old that they still use things like: echo FONT COLOR='red'Hi there; Makes it very hard to help HTML

Re: [WSG] Problems with IE rendering - what's new?

2004-09-07 Thread Andrew Krespanis
1. I'm having a problem with the IE peekaboo bug on my new blog page. After the right hand sidebar becomes too tall (not sure how tall too tall is exactly) the bottom of the left hand sidebar (which should be background color showing through from the body) becomes obscured by the background of

Re: [WSG] Brisbane meeting tonight

2004-09-07 Thread John Allsopp
Thanks Lea, Miss the meeting and you miss meeting John Allsopp - you don't want to miss that opportunity, surely! ;) but if there is a low turn out, I'll take it personally people :-) See you tonight, John John Allsopp :: westciv :: http://www.westciv.com/

Re: [WSG] Form layout in CSS - left column background not extending ...

2004-09-07 Thread Natalie Buxton
Hi I use a background image in a container div instead to ensure that columns continue to the end of a set height. Not sure if this helps. On Wed, 08 Sep 2004 08:36:19 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a form laid out in css, the left columns contain the headers for the

Re: [WSG] Interview markup?

2004-09-07 Thread Andrew Krespanis
Justin French said: Sure, the W3 spec suggests DLs to be used for conversations and other non-DL purposes, and we've seen some great examples out there, but the reality is that (last time I researched), DL's are still announced by screen readers as a definition list of N items, which would