That sounds very complex to achieve, if it is possible:
As things stand, the lines you are talking about don't actually exist, they are
an artefact of the tiled bb image you are using (nb, the effect was too subtle
for me to see on the first machine I viewed your site on) - to do what you
descri
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>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stuart Foulstone
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>Subject: Re: [WSG] How to make diagonal lines change colour?
>
>Hi,
>
>From a usability and accessibility point of vie
Do I understand this right: you want the background to change, as the mouse
passes over one of these diagonal lines - or just when the user mouses over any
part of the background?
Mike
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Don't mean to be negative, but NVU is a pretty poor choice: even its own
home page admits that!
(Last release was 2005, and that should never have been classed as
version 1, and no development work being undertaken.)
As far as I can see, the best choice on the open source route is
SeaMonkey.
Re
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> one thing I
>miss about dreamweaver is that you can do a 'search all' and
>get a list of all instances of the thing you are searching for
>rather than cycling through a 'find...find...find...'
>list. So far it's the only program I've used
This has been possible on every Apple Mac for the last fifteen years or
so, and you have the option of changing the voice if you want,
unfortunately the good versions that are available for Windows are all
relatively expensive.
Regards,
Mike
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>> Someone's asked me abou
That would depend on what you consider significant - some of the most
irritating issues are due to relatively tiny bugs.
Safari has essentially the same codebase on both Windows and OSX, but
the OS is always going to be responsible for some functions.
For an example, consider the well-known "thre
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>"In the real world where people are imperfect, you can't have
>a standard with just a spec-you must have a super-strict
>reference implementation, and everybody has to test against
>the reference implementati
I use XP on two different corporate networks. Both have auto-update
blocked, and will remain on IE6 for the foreseeable future. I don't
think this is uncommon, but we will need to wait and see. Until now, the
general practice appears to be to support the latest two versions of IE,
but I think for a
Basically, there is no difference.
Web 2 is basically just marketing-speak, loosely meaning "The Currently
Fashionable Thing"
Regards,
Mike
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Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 1:21 PM
To: wsg
One question that I have yet to see anyone ask is: How good will IE8
actually be?
If it is perfect, then there is no need to worry about future
versions...
I also haven't seen anyone mention the fact that we have yet to get rid
of IE5 completely - I know of at least one large organisation (not my
If the back button doesn't work, then I think you will find that
history.go won't work either.
Mike
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Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 2:41 PM
To: wsg@webstandardsgro
Now fire up Safari and Camino side-by-side, and notice how both browsers
display form elements the way that the user expects - nice and shiny,
rounded blue - easy to tell apart from the occasional "You are infected"
etc pop-ups with an image of a Windows button.
This is because the form elements
Have you looked at UltraCompare, a close cousin of the excellent
UltraEdit ?
Mike
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>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Horowitz
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>To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
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>Ask yourself where have you ever seen go
I presume it is okay with you then if MS starts up their own PC Support
business? Sorry 'Computer Consultancy'?
Assuming it is, do you mind if they then advertise it heavily, force
users to sign up to it before they can use Windows, undercut other
operators, etc. etc.?
It is precisely because Gov
John Faulds wrote:
> I can't see that flying. Is anyone going to ask Apple to stop shipping
> their OS with Safari?
It may no longer be the case, (since there is no supported version
available) but Apple DID include Internet Explorer on all Apple Mac's,
even when Safari became available. What's m
For the sake of clarity; can you please confirm whether you are referring to
machine-readable site-maps for the benefit of Google etc.; or to
human-readable site-maps for the benefit of your human visitors?
Mike
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Sent: Su
Strictly speaking, it is the browsers that are at fault - Safari/WebKit
supports multiple background images, and FireFox/Camino et al. all
support rounded corners via border-radius. In both cases this is
(basically) according to the CSS spec.
In many cases, I use border-radius: this is purely eye-
Certainly for this example, the use of an ordered list is incorrect - there is
a strong hint there in the description; this should be marked up with tags,
with the identifier as the first bit of text, ie the number is content in this
example.
If you think about it, the 'label' of each item MUST
I can see what you mean, however that would depend to a degree on what the
list-number actually represents: perhaps the OP could give us a little more
context?
Anyway, no-one has spotted a good answer to this problem, so I merely offered
this idea for discussion, as an alternative to other bad
How hard would it be to have the list start with two empty elements,
removed from view in what ever way works best?
Mike
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>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick Lauke
>Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 4:30 PM
>To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
>Subject: RE: [WSG] Cost of Accessibility
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>> And here's me thinking that WCAG 1.0 _WAS_ a web standard !?
>
>Guidelin
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>Subject: Re: [WSG] Cost of Accessibility
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>Standards compliance doesn't automatically guarantee an
>accessible site ...
> In 2000, Bruce Maguire's accessibility complaint against the
Olympics.com website was upheld.
> Did this lead to a spate of "frivolous", "discriminatory" lawsuits in
Australia?
Did it lead to any improvement in accessibility of commercial,
government or hobby web sites in Australia?
Did
I think that a more appropriate example would be using:
-moz-border-radius
Any validator should tell you that this is non-standard, but it is up to
you to decide whether or not to use it.
Regards,
Mike
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You may want to double-check you maths - I make it around 800px high at
72dpi:
295mm / 25.4mm = 11 inches * 72 dpi ~ 800px after margins.
Mike
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Are you serving up your hacked stylesheet to everyone, or just to those
crippled by IE?
The latter is far more acceptable than the former, in my opinion.
Mike
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I'm afraid this doesn't give me much confidence when your label for
HTML5 is (X)HTML 5
One of the major points about HTML5 is that it is _not_ XML based.
Second point would be what do you mean by Block(ish)?
Regards,
Mike
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>I personally wouldn't use it for production websites because
>it inflates the size of the Javascript file, therefore forcing
>the user to download more. Also it would tempt others to steal
>code by making it easy to
That has to be just about the nastiest version of all - I click a link
and get a new window. Fine, not what I wanted, but there was that other
link that looked interesting, I'll just go back to the first window and
open a few more links before I read that page. Hey! Where did they all
go!
Number o
How about asking the client if they want a 'modern' web site or an
old-fashioned one? Assuming they ask for the former, then inform them
that it is not possible to have pop-up windows of any kind. Also mention
pop-up blockers and ask if they want to be 'that kind of site'
Mike
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>I love web standard and practice it with the best of my
>ability,
Nice to know, very glad to hear it.
> and I love PDF too - use it, create it, deliver it
So somewhat biased then...
>PDF can be accessible, not in the sense of web stan
Saying that PDF's are needed by Government Websites is a very circular
argument for allowing them - why are they needed? In my experience it is
only ever because of laziness or poorly designed workflows, and as you
point out, we all hate them, especially when they cannot be opened/read.
Mike
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If your banking site relies on a new window for its security, then it is
time to get a new bank!
In this day and age when every major browser has tabbed browsing, there
is little that is more infuriating than have a new browser window
spawned for no reason - worst of all is when I 'middle-click' t
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Id say dont use pop-ups, nobody likes them e
Not sure about the 1.X series, but text shadow is supported in Safari
2.X - I have been using it for quite a while, and love it.
Mike
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>
>On 30 Jun 2007, at 9:58 AM, Sander Aarts wrote:
>
>> > So you don't care at
I think you missed the major point of the last reply - do you have any
evidence that what you are doing _does_ make things easier for AT users?
Many of the other good ideas that people have had, have been proved to
be counter-productive, such as access keys that conflict with OS
shortcuts. I have b
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>
>I alway make skip links to all major parts of the page, being
>the different l
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>>> Of course the branding shouldn't be an .
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>> Total
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> Its a matter of convention.
And demanded by WCAG
> When we write documents, we always put the "big heading" up top and go
down from there. > Its simple habit.
Agreed.
> Of course the
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> Subject: Re: [WSG] Accessibility and "fly out" menus
> Providing an option to turn off the dropdowns is of course
> If you use JS to write specific styles to the document, there
> should be
> nothing "popping in and out".
>
> ---
> Regards,
> Thierry | www.TJKDesign.com
How do you work that one out? Javascript cannot run until the page has
(mostly) loaded, so I can vouch for getting a 'flash of extra conte
Generally speaking, my advice would be to use print styles as part of
the main stylesheet setup (possibly but not necessarily a separate CSS
file)
By tying your print-friendly styles to a script of any kind, you are
forcing the user to find that link and be able to use it, in order to
gain the bene
Marc,
It is pretty trivial to use JavaScript to 'measure' the height of a
window / viewport - you should be able to find plenty of articles that
describe the details, if you Google carefully. From what I remember, all
browsers will give you this data in pixels, regardless of how the
element you are
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>
> Fortunately we can aim stylesheets specifically at handheld devices,
Sure we can aim, but I think anyone who has spent half an hour or more
looking into this will tell you that you
Marvin,
I for one don't really understand what it is that you are trying to
achieve, but then that may partly be the language barrier!
Regards,
Mike
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> Sent: Monday, May 28, 2007 3:04 AM
I think the primary issue you have here is the assertion that Images,
however artistic they may be, qualify as 'data'. I cannot see that
connection, and therefore cannot agree with the use of a table.
Further, the 'relationship' between two images may change if they are
moved, but the 'meaning' of
I stand corrected.
Must be time to by a new copy of the OED - 'Initialism' isn't in my carbon-sink
copy!
These definitions do seem much clearer than M-W was, but then I have never been
impressed with them.
Mike
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>
> I don't see that this should be the case. For example, "Ltd" is a
> common UK abbreviation for the word "Limited" in the context of a
> "Limited Liability Company", such as "HyperGlobalMegaCorp Ltd."
>
> Another example would be "Mr", which is an abbreviation of "Mister."
> There are pl
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Dorman
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 5:45 PM
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> Subject: Re: [WSG] Acronym tag usage
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>
> Incidentally, it strikes me as somewhat silly to fuss about whether
> t
I can't make up my mind whether you are agreeing with me here or
disagreeing?
The important point is that this type of script assumes that no
JavaScript == screen reader
which is patent nonsense.
It also assumes that screen reader users are the only ones who might
dislike pop-ups, which is even m
That is a good point, though again it is assuming that the page will be
read in a fully linear fashion. Depending on the nature of the page, a
compromise of the first time per 'section' might be better.
Again compare with a printed page where it is relatively easy for a
sighted person to pick out
Since most web pages are skimmed rather than being read in a
traditional, linear fashion, it makes sense to use the full tag and
attributes on every occasion.
The traditional, print-based method was to only expand the
abbreviation/acronym on first use, to save space, but this does not
apply to an a
Perhaps I did not make myself clear - what every script of this nature
does is remove the need for an 'inline' onClick event handler, by
programmatically inserting the exact same handler after the document has
loaded, by searching for some attribute of the link. While this does a
good job of fooli
Unfortunately, using JavaScript to insert such links is no more than a fudge -
you cannot rely on JavaScript being turned off in a screen-reader users
browser, and this cannot be regarded as 'unobtrusive', or even 'progressive
enhancement' as it is a fundamental change in behaviour.
Mike
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On the other hand, relying on the form data to indicate which fields to
validate may be dangerous - a malicious user may rename the field before
submission, potentially bypassing your security.
Regards,
Mike
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Can I just mention, that if you can possibly find the time, then _do_
try and teach things to your colleague; nothing else is as good for
ironing out any issues in your own knowledge as having someone else
saying "but why?" This may sound daft, but trust me, it always works
for me.
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Sounds like a job for the likes of Visio, or Illustrator. Since you
don't appear to need anything functional, I would avoid the complexities
of NVU or Dreamweaver.
You would need to spend five minutes providing the basic shapes, but
then it is all down to the user.
Mike
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In what way do you think that SPANs are better than DIVs? My
understanding was that they were both entirely neutral, and at exactly
the same level as each other, simply that one is a block by default,
while the other is inline.
Regards,
Mike
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