Re: [WSG] SilverLight

2007-10-30 Thread Derek Featherstone
On 10/30/07, Christian Montoya wrote: On 10/30/07, Derek Featherstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christian - do you have a reference for that anywhere? I'd be really interested in seeing it (as I'm sure others would be too!) Just read the spec on XAML, which is what Silverlight uses: http

Re: [WSG] SilverLight

2007-10-29 Thread Derek Featherstone
interested in seeing it (as I'm sure others would be too!) Thanks, in advance... Derek. -- Derek Featherstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +1 613-599-9784 1-866-932-4878 (toll-free in North America) Work: http://www.furtherahead.com Blog: http://www.boxofchocolates.ca Learn: http://north.webdirections.org

Re: [WSG] CSS Driven?

2005-12-16 Thread Derek Featherstone
discussed, but I'm curious to know if you have examples of this - things you couldn't have achieved in other ways? It sounds odd, but if you have examples, I'd be very curious to see them... Cheers, Derek. -- Derek Featherstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: 613-599-9784 1-866-932-4878 (toll-free

Re: [WSG] positive-discrimination === not positive and IMG properties

2005-12-15 Thread Derek Featherstone
. -- Derek Featherstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: 613-599-9784 1-866-932-4878 (toll-free in North America) Web Development: http://www.furtherahead.com Personal:http://www.boxofchocolates.ca ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] Accessibility: Default placeholders

2005-11-13 Thread Derek Featherstone
this to the hitlist for the WaSP Accessibility Task Force. It is something that is of concern to all - I'll see about running some tests with a local braille display user and see what I can determine from his tests... Cheers, Derek. -- Derek Featherstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: 613-599-9784 1-866-932

Re: [WSG] Accessibility: Default placeholders

2005-11-13 Thread Derek Featherstone
to emphasize the text required instead of an asterisk. Cheers, Derek. -- Derek Featherstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: 613-599-9784 1-866-932-4878 (toll-free in North America) Web Development: http://www.furtherahead.com Personal:http://www.boxofchocolates.ca

Re: [WSG] simplyaccessible.org

2005-10-11 Thread Derek Featherstone
the colours/contrast/size of the rest of the page. At a certain point, though, I needed to leave the rest to your imagination. Cheers, Derek. -- Derek Featherstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: 613-599-9784 1-866-932-4878 (toll-free in North America) Web Development: http://www.furtherahead.com

Re: [WSG] simplyaccessible.org

2005-10-10 Thread Derek Featherstone
are there to provide additional style hooks to create CSS based form layouts and to allow me to create rows without using tables. Or am I misinterpreting what you are saying here? Cheers, Derek. -- Derek Featherstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: 613-599-9784 1-866-932-4878 (toll-free in North America) Web Development

RE: [WSG] simplyaccessible.org

2005-10-10 Thread Derek Featherstone
that use case may not be as important. Now then, I'd better get back to it so that I can post the second round of examples... :) Cheers, Derek. -- Derek Featherstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: 613-599-9784 1-866-932-4878 (toll-free in North America) Web Development: http://www.furtherahead.com

Re: [WSG] Meta Keywords?

2005-10-06 Thread Derek Featherstone
... Cheers, Derek. -- Derek Featherstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: 613-599-9784 1-866-932-4878 (toll-free in North America) Web Development: http://www.furtherahead.com Personal:http://www.boxofchocolates.ca ** The discussion list for http

RE: [WSG] implicit / explicit labels which is better?

2005-08-02 Thread Derek Featherstone
regards, Derek. -- Derek Featherstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: 613-599-9784 1-866-932-4878 (toll-free in North America) Web Development: http://www.furtherahead.com Personal:http://www.boxofchocolates.ca ** The discussion list for http

RE: Re: [WSG] AJAX and accesibility

2005-06-29 Thread Derek Featherstone
, and hopefully we'll be making some good progress soon. Best regards, Derek. -- Derek Featherstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: 613-599-9784 1-866-932-4878 (toll-free in North America) Web Development: http://www.furtherahead.com Personal:http://www.boxofchocolates.ca

RE: [WSG] CSS List Separator

2005-06-14 Thread Derek Featherstone
, given that we still don't really know to what degree punctuation matters. Cheers, Derek. -- Derek Featherstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 613.599.9784; toll-free: 1.866.932.4878 (North America) Web Development: http://www.furtherahead.com Web Accessibility: http://www.wats.ca Personal: http

RE: [WSG] Best way to train someone in css and web standards

2005-05-23 Thread Derek Featherstone
write forever about this, but that is more than enough to digest for now... Hope this is helpful to you... Best regards, Derek. -- Derek Featherstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 613.599.9784; toll-free: 1.866.932.4878 (North America) Web Development: http://www.furtherahead.com Web Accessibility

RE: Focus highlighting, was Re: [WSG] Some links for light reading (30/11/04)

2004-11-30 Thread Derek Featherstone
On Tuesday, November 30, 2004 9:09 AM, Kornel Lesinski wrote: Does that really matter? Yes, focus highlighting does matter. I come across this daily -- and I'm a keyboard user by choice... In Firefox and IE there is a focus border anyway. Which isn't exactly prominent - it provides a

RE: Focus highlighting, was Re: [WSG] Some links for light reading (30/11/04)

2004-11-30 Thread Derek Featherstone
; background-color:#fff;} So, please, please, if you want to make your sites more accessible to keyboard users, add :focus and :active rules to match your :hover rule. Best regards, Derek. -- Derek Featherstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 613.599.9784; toll-free: 1.866.932.4878 (North America) Web

RE: Focus highlighting, was Re: [WSG] Some links for light reading (30/11/04)

2004-11-30 Thread Derek Featherstone
, Derek. -- Derek Featherstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 613.599.9784; toll-free: 1.866.932.4878 (North America) Web Accessibility: http://www.wats.ca Personal: http://www.boxofchocolates.ca ** The discussion list for http

RE: [WSG] IE's New JavaScript Blocking Feature

2004-11-26 Thread Derek Featherstone
to open a new tab with Ctrl + T, or open my feedreader (Sage) with Ctrl + S will cause the popup to appear. It can actually become quite frustrating when onkeypress is used like this... Best regards, Derek. -- Derek Featherstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 613.599.9784; toll-free: 1.866.932.4878

RE: [WSG] IE's New JavaScript Blocking Feature

2004-11-26 Thread Derek Featherstone
. Don't add onkeypress in the name of accessibility and device independence... Best regards, Derek. -- Derek Featherstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 613.599.9784; toll-free: 1.866.932.4878 (North America) Web Development: http://www.furtherahead.com Web Accessibility: http://www.wats.ca Personal

RE: [WSG] Fieldsets can be used outside the box - Correct use of fieldset

2004-11-23 Thread Derek Featherstone
. -- Derek Featherstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 613.599.9784; toll-free: 1.866.932.4878 (North America) Web Accessibility: http://www.wats.ca Personal: http://www.boxofchocolates.ca ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

RE: [WSG] Creating Nice Pop-Ups

2004-11-10 Thread Derek Featherstone
to tab to the next link, causing popups to occur, or changing stylesheets without the user really wanting to change stylesheets. Best regards, Derek. -- Derek Featherstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 613.599.9784; toll-free: 1.866.932.4878 (North America) Web Accessibility: http://www.wats.ca

RE: [WSG] Flyout menu questions

2004-11-08 Thread Derek Featherstone
is a misnomer, at least the way it has been implemented in browsers. It actually behaves more like onactivate, so onclick will be just fine for keyboard users as well. Hope this helps... Best regards, Derek. -- Derek Featherstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 613.599.9784; toll-free: 1.866.932.4878

RE: [WSG] Question on tabindex

2004-07-20 Thread Derek Featherstone
/keyboardusageandtabindex/62 for a few more details and some test results... Cheers, Derek. -- Derek Featherstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 613.599.9784; toll-free: 1.866.932.4878 (North America) Web Accessibility: http://www.wats.ca Web Development: http://www.furtherahead.com Personal: http

RE: [WSG] Internal CSS in XHTML served as application/xhtml+xml

2004-07-09 Thread Derek Featherstone
(s);lw.document.close(); Links and Titles /a Adding proper escape sequences to inline JS in this case just won't work, or perhaps I'm missing something? Best regards, Derek. -- Derek Featherstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 613.599.9784; toll-free: 1.866.932.4878 (North America) Web

RE: [WSG] Internal CSS in XHTML served as application/xhtml+xml

2004-07-09 Thread Derek Featherstone
I won't lose too much sleep over it... ;) Cheers, Derek. -- Derek Featherstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 613.599.9784; toll-free: 1.866.932.4878 (North America) Web Accessibility: http://www.wats.ca Web Development: http://www.furtherahead.com Personal: http://www.boxofchocolates.ca