[WSG] Petition to save John Slatin’s Accessibility Institute

2008-09-05 Thread Gonzalo González Mora
I'm making my first steps regarding web accessibility, and today I was
checking the RNIB.org.uk website when I found this news
articlehttp://www.rnib.org.uk/wacblog/news/petition-to-save-john-slatin%E2%80%99s-accessibility-institute/in
their blog. I quote:

John Slatin, a respected member of the web accessibility community and
former chair of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group,
sadly passed away earlier this year leaving behind him the University of
Texas Accessibility Institutehttp://www.utexas.edu/research/accessibility/
.

Sadly UT want to close the Accessibility Institute which has been a centre
of excellence for research and innovation in web accessibility. This would
be a huge loss to the industry as the Accessibility Institute has
contributed to the furtherance of web accessibility in many ways.

You can read the rest of the news
herehttp://www.rnib.org.uk/wacblog/news/petition-to-save-john-slatin%E2%80%99s-accessibility-institute/
.

Sign the petition to save the Accessibility
Institutehttp://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/SavetheInstitutetoday
and tell anyone else who may be interested.


Gonzalo González Mora


PS: Sorry for my English but it's not my native language (I'm from
Argentina), and this is the first discussion I open in the WSG so if I made
any mistakes, please, point them out so that I can avoid them the next time.


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Re: [WSG] best practices for using access keys

2008-09-05 Thread Gonzalo González Mora
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 11:25 PM, dwain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 i've read the following two articles and i would entertain some
 feedback on using access keys.  i'm slowly bringing my web site up to
 better accessibility standards and i have a few more things to do like
 add a skip nav link and access keys.  any other articles and resources
 would be appreciated for both subjects.

 http://www.alistapart.com/articles/accesskeys/

 http://www.sitepoint.com/article/accesskeys/

 cheers,
 dwain

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Hi Dwain,
You might find this article interesting:
http://www.rnib.org.uk/wacblog/articles/too-much-accessibility/too-too-much-accessibility-accesskeys/Make
sure you read the comments, theres' some really good info there.

Gonzalo González Mora


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Re: [WSG] Accesbility Help

2008-09-04 Thread Gonzalo González Mora
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 captcha one because they are far from accessible, I'm not that good at PHP
 though to figure it out, I already use the Mikes Green Beast form for
 general contact but this will be to process order request. I've trawled the
 internet but all I can find is captcha solutions, can any one point me in
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Hi,
I've seen this captcha service and, according to their website, it's
accessible to blind users. I didn't check it, so I don't know... anyway,
here's the link: http://recaptcha.net/

Gonzalo


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Re: [WSG] Acceptable autoplay of music

2008-08-15 Thread Gonzalo González Mora
I think it shouldn't automatically play the songs, it's really annoying from
my point of view, specially when the volume is set to 100%. If you really
need to play the songs automatically, I would suggest setting the volume to
50% or somewhere near that value. You should make the player visible so that
you can stop it as soon as you reach the page.

Gonzalo

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 11:14 AM, James Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:

  Hi,

 This is a more best practices question than strictly standards, but I
 *think* it is on-topic, apologies if not and please mail me off-list if you
 feel that is more appropriate.

 I have a band for a client who are requesting that on the homepage loading
 a music player starts automatically. Do people think this is acceptable
 for a bands website or would you think that you should always get the user
 to initiate playback?

 Thanks

 James


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Re: [WSG] IE loses background image

2008-07-31 Thread Gonzalo González Mora
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 1:50 AM, Michael Horowitz 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 My background image is disappearing in IE 7 but shows up in Firefox, Opera
 and safari.  It's at horowitzfamily.net

 I'm thinking I have a conflict between different background images

 I have verified I have valid css
 http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?profile=css21warning=0uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.horowitzfamily.net%2F

 #mainNav ul a {
   margin:0;
   padding:0;
   display:block;
   line-height:40px;
   text-decoration:none;
   color:#00;
   background:url(../images/button3.jpg)no-repeat;
   font-size: 10px;
   color:#4d4325;
   font-weight:bold;
   text-indent:35px;
  }

 #mainNav img {
   margin:0px;
   padding:0px;
   display:block;
   float: left;
 }

 body {
   font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
   background-image:url(../images/background.jpg);
   font-size:10px;
  }

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Add a space on the background property, like this:

background:url(../images/button3.jpg) no-repeat;

Gonzalo


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Re: [WSG] Why css settings a background image in the body tag wouldn't work

2008-07-29 Thread Gonzalo González Mora
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 7:48 PM, Michael Horowitz 
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 I have set a background image in my body tag

 body {
   font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
   background-image:url(../images/background.jpg)
   font-size:10px;  }

 I am finding I am having to put this info instead in my div's
 Im sure it is some silly problem

 Thanks

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You forgot the semicolon (;) at the end of the background-image property.

Gonzalo


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Re: [WSG] IE6/7 behaviour

2008-06-24 Thread Gonzalo González Mora
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Rob Enslin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi all, if this is off topic I apologise in advance.

 I have a slight issue with IE (surprise surprise) on a page I'm *working*
 on. In FF and Safari (PC and Mac) my page is centred (#wrap). In IE it's
 not. Although not a standards-based question (I think) I wonder if anyone
 has the 'fix' for it?

 Code CSS snippet:

 body {
 margin: 0;
 padding: 0;
 }

 #wrap {
 width: 832px;
 margin: 0 auto;
 }

 The page: http://www.servicemanagement.co.uk/new.htm

 Many thanks in advance,

 Rob


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Hi Rob,
Try adding text-align:center; to the body and text-align:left; to the #wrap.

Gonzalo


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Re: [WSG] unsubscribe

2008-06-19 Thread Gonzalo González Mora
Hi Margaret,
I think you have to go here:
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Gonzalo

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Re: [WSG] W3C HTML Validation of an Intranet site

2008-06-18 Thread Gonzalo González Mora
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 2:41 AM, Hayden's Harness Attachment 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I have an Intranet site I wish to put through the HTML validator. How do I
 validate the Internet site. Download and save the code? then upload the code
 to the HTML validator?

 Angus MacKinnon
 Infoforce Services
 http://www.infoforce-services.com

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Hello Angus,
You can go here: http://validator.w3.org/#validate_by_upload, select your
file and upload it. You'll get the validation results of the uploaded file.
You can use the Web Developer add-on for Firefox and press CTRL+SHIFT+A, it
automates this process.

Gonzalo


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Re: [WSG] Webstock recordings now available

2008-03-21 Thread Gonzalo González Mora
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Mike Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 http://webstock.org.nz/past/recordings.php

 Enjoy!

 Mike


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Could anyone download these files? I'm trying to download the mp3 (because
of the lighter file size) but the speed is 1-3kB/sec and the connection is
interrupted so I can't get the whole file (plus the outrageous time to
download it, around 7hours for 43MB) :( Any chance to upload them to
RapidShare or some other host? I could upload them to my hosting (I've got
plenty of space and bandwidth, so I could store the mp3 there) if you upload
them somewhere so I can download them.

Anyway, much appreciated.

Gonzalo


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