Re: [WSG] Site for Vision Impaired

2010-11-27 Thread Lesley Binks 
On 26 November 2010 23:25, Daniel Anderson daniela...@gmail.com wrote:
 G'day Everyone,

 I was wondering if any of you have done any work on sites for the visually
 impaired? I have just started a projet for a school for the visually
 impaired and the site must cater for these people, and obvioulsy for people
 with normal eysite.

 What are the considerations I need to take into account with a project like
 this? eg ability to change contrast, text size etc? Are there any good
 resources or advice you could share with me?

 It would be greatly appreciated.

Apart from letting the user decide the font, some visual impairments
mean you can't rely on the user using your colour scheme at all
either.
Such people will override the whole colour scheme to one suitable for
them by using their own css for specific colour combinations.
I have no idea what the guide lines are in such a situation.

Also consider people who might  use a screen reader  to have your
website read to them rather than view it.
They might prefer if you can get extensive menu options out the way
instead of having them at the start of each page. They can get to the
content quicker but it isn't SEO friendly.
Forget about image maps, flash and fancy roll-over stuff  and avoid
using colours that are difficult to differentiate for varying values
of ability to differentiate.

Google shows a number of links on website accessibility -  you might
better info  there.



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From: David Storey dsto...@opera.com
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 22:53:53 +0100
Subject: Re: [WSG] advice on background images?


On 26 Nov 2010, at 22:32, cat soul wrote:

 Any tips on how to minimize or eliminate how obvious it is where the 
tiles meet when you have the background image repeat?

Use a better background-image? I’m not sure what you mean? bg images 
repeat if you tell it to do. You either have an image designed to repeat 
or you don' (or you have a vector image via SVG that scales instead).
 
 
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From: Kepler Gelotte kep...@neighborwebmaster.com
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 17:07:04 -0500
Subject: RE: [WSG] advice on background images?

 Any tips on how to minimize or eliminate how obvious it is where the  
 tiles meet when you have the background image repeat?

I'm not sure what this has to do with web standards, but you can check out
http://tutorialblog.org/make-repeating-seamless-tile-backgrounds-with-photos
hop/


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From: Henrik Madsen hen...@igenerator.com.au
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 06:14:08 +0800
Subject: Re: [WSG] advice on background images?


Have you checked that the tiles, do in fact tile seamlessly?




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On 27/11/2010, at 5:32 AM, cat soul wrote:

 Any tips on how to minimize or eliminate how obvious it is where the  
 tiles meet when you have the background image repeat?


 thanks

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From: Jon @ The PixelForge jon.war...@thepixelforge.net
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 22:25:10 +
Subject: Re: [WSG] advice on background images?

Again, I'm not sure if this deserves place in WSG, but to give you some
direction:

Photoshop has an Offset filter. Combined with the clone tool you can usually
generate repeating images relatively quickly. Quality depends on a lot of
factors though.

I would recommend you try somewhere like cgtalk.com (or email me directly)
for better instructions.

Regards,

Jon Warner
Tel: 0788 99 424 30
http://thepixelforge.net/

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Eastleigh
Hampshire
SO50 5AR
England


On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Kepler Gelotte 
kep...@neighborwebmaster.com wrote:

  Any tips on how to minimize or eliminate how obvious it is where the
  tiles meet when you have the background image repeat?

 I'm not sure what this has to do with web standards, but you can check out