Re: [WSG] minimal use of modernizr?

2012-05-12 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
not a safe regex to validate email addresses. It will exclude legitimate addresses like john.doe+la...@gmail.com. I suggest just keeping it simple and checking for ^.*@.*$. See also discussion at: http://www.regular-expressions.info/email.html -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [WSG] Expected behaviour of links to external websites

2011-12-29 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Hassan Schroeder has...@webtuitive.com wrote: On 12/28/11 8:08 AM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: [snip] Since they aren't navigating hypermedia, I'm not sure that's comparable. But typically you have a fine degree of user control of the opening of new windows

Re: [WSG] Expected behaviour of links to external websites

2011-12-28 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
decide when that should happen is not. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***

Re: [WSG] Expected behaviour of links to external websites

2011-12-28 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
control of the opening of new windows in such programs. At the very least, it's predictable. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join

Re: [WSG] Is it possible to style an attribute?

2011-12-19 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
in attributes using CSS generated content, e.g.: dfn:hover:before { content: attr(title); } However, you can't apply transform punctuation within the raw text content into italics with CSS alone, for that you'd need JS too. Hope that helps. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [WSG] media queries can't understand body tag

2011-09-18 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
in Chrome: http://pastehtml.com/view/b7qe04of6.html Do you have a testcase you can point to that fails in a named browser? -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

Re: [WSG] CSS variable navigational menu`

2011-01-09 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
on focus. Food for thought: http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/#keyboard-operation http://www.uie.com/articles/users_decide_first/ http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200705/accessible_expanding_and_collapsing_menu/ http://labs.benjaminhawkeslewis.com/rapid-access-hover-menu.html -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [WSG] how do I declare gradient and image in the background property?

2010-12-26 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
); not background-image: url(foo), url(bar); -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh

Re: [WSG] how do I declare gradient and image in the background property?

2010-12-23 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
want. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***

Re: [WSG] disallow IE6 to load the main style sheet

2010-12-18 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
of this sort, it is better to differentiate the experience for known-bad browsers and assume all other browsers are fully capable, so that users of capable minority browsers are not locked out or forced to spoof. In other words: use a blacklist not a whitelist. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [WSG] Order of Tags within head (XHTML)

2010-12-15 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
for this? -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***

Re: [WSG] Order of Tags within head (XHTML)

2010-12-15 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
this problem doesn't apply to other self-closing elements, such as link.        Un-styled content flashing up in IE. After reading, perhaps I could of worded the post a little better. I guess - isn't the second topic an argument for ending with a link as much as not? -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [WSG] lazyweb://schema.agnostic.URLs

2010-11-10 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 3:07 AM, Micky Hulse mickyhulse.li...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder how many folks don't specify the http: part? It sounds like there are no drawbacks. Not quite: http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2010/02/10/5a-missing-schema-double-download/ -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [WSG] XHTML or HTML?

2010-11-10 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
for styling, feeds for feed autodiscovery), page description (often excerpted in search results pages). Possibly Open Graph Protocol metadata (http://opengraphprotocol.org/). -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] HTML5 - Marking up forms

2010-11-10 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
fields before moving on to later fields. I'd suggest adding a single progress element with JS, and tweaking its value as the user actually completes the form. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] Getting my feet wet in HTML5

2010-09-07 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
/PF/aria/complete#aria-level (Those ARIA annotations are strictly unnecessary when UAs implement the Strong native semantics and implied ARIA semantics from that table.) -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] link rel=stylesheet question

2010-07-17 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
the rel attribute first, as in the example below, but does the order of attributes matter or is the order convention, convention meaning, that's what most people do? Convention. I guess it puts the /purpose/ of the linked resource (namely, being a stylesheet) first. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [WSG] Flash video without embed tag

2010-07-10 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
/articles/flashembedcagematch For a useful JS library that abstracts a lot of the browser differences see: http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/ Hope that helps. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] title attribute and semantic data

2010-04-28 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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Re: [WSG] validator error or my code?

2010-04-24 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
-minutes-per-Windows-session limit) * NVDA on Windows (FOSS) * VoiceOver comes with OS X * Orca on GNOME (FOSS) The main hurdle here is not price, but developer inexperience with with complex assistive technology. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [WSG] Fw: html vallidation

2009-09-12 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
the document, you will find you have already closed the p element begun with an opening tag (p) on line 57 with a closing tag (/p) on line 72. So the validator correctly reports that it has found a closing tag for an element that is not open. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [WSG] Accessible Forms

2009-08-19 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
, which includes some reports about poor support for implicit labels: http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG-TECHS/H44.html -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

Re: [WSG] table inside a dd?

2009-08-17 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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Re: [WSG] Accessible websites

2009-07-07 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
legibility for Joe than Joe and his browser vendor? -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh

Re: [WSG] Accessible websites

2009-07-05 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
On 4/7/09 16:09, Felix Miata wrote: On 2009/07/04 10:13 (GMT+0100) Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis composed: On 2/7/09 17:07, Felix Miata wrote: Zoom, minimum text size and magnifiers are defense mechanisms. The basic problem is the pervasive offense - not respecting users' font size choices

Re: [WSG] Accessible websites

2009-07-04 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
which get shown to the user - rather than using DOM methods to add and remove fragments to the DOM as required. These do turn turn the partnership into a conflict. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] valid meta tags

2009-05-27 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
/#ri20040808.101452727 http://www.w3.org/TR/i18n-html-tech-lang/#ri20040728.121358444 -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join

Re: [WSG] valid meta tags

2009-05-27 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
. Is this validator at fault then? It's a testing assistant rather than a validator, strictly speaking. And yes, I'd say it's at fault in this case. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] Possible to embed Flash w/out keyboard trap problems?

2009-05-13 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
to your wondering is no. :( -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***

Re: [WSG] Image Replacement and Accessabilty

2009-04-17 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
be a correct method. But this assumption doesn't really reflect the actual approach taken by screen reader developers. All popular screen readers ignore speech- and braille-specific CSS. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] Image Replacement and Accessabilty

2009-04-16 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
On 16/4/09 05:56, Gary Barber wrote: Now it is h#{ left: -px; } that had issues with screen readers. Interesting. Not in my experience. What screen readers and versions are you talking about? Do you have a test case that demonstrates the problem? -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [WSG] Semantics: Microformats, RDFa

2009-02-27 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
on how widely useful your vocabulary would be. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh

Re: [WSG] Accessibility testing

2009-02-14 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
.org/TR/WCAG10/ [5] http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag.php [6] http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/26-accessibility-testing/#usertesting [7] http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/PublicWebsite/public_seeitrightaudit.hcsp -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [WSG] Implication of empty divs

2009-02-09 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
On 9/2/09 07:45, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: How can CSS overflow replace div style=clear:both;/div? See http://www.ejeliot.com/blog/59 -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] Implication of empty divs

2009-02-09 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
div/div div/div pbaz/p are _all_ read: bar blank baz It also has a configuration setting for whether blank lines should be spoken with the Say All command. If this is off (as it is by default), then the above variations would all be read: bar baz -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [WSG] Implication of empty divs

2009-02-08 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
practices generally see: http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag.php http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/code/public_wacsitemap.hcsp Hope that helps. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] Opera Targeting?!

2009-02-03 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
publisher suggestions about font size and set enforce their own preferences. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm

Re: [WSG] How to hide/show form questions with javascript while meeting WCAG 2?

2009-01-27 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
are then styled display: block if a field fails form validation. This breaks horribly when your styling suggestions aren't applied, because the user will be confused by error messages that do not reflect actual input. Hope that helps. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [WSG] Validating (X)HTML + ARIA

2009-01-21 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
as an enhancement rather than replacement whether dependent on JS or not. I think the more serious compatibility problem with ARIA is the immaturity and rapid pace of change of the draft specifications and implementations. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [WSG] Validating (X)HTML + ARIA

2009-01-20 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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Re: [WSG] Microformats Accessibility

2009-01-20 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
to write dates most clearly in English is 9 February 2009 (or, somewhat worse, February 9th 2009) not any machine-readable readable syntax. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] Validating (X)HTML + ARIA

2009-01-20 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
mentioned using JavaScript to implement ARIA parameters. This is a good idea... Why? but just how accessible would that be to a vision impaired visitor with JavaScript turned off? As accessible as your page normally is with JavaScript turned off to the same user. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [WSG] Website review : http://webprocafe.com

2009-01-16 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
generic. Sorry that's harsh, but I hope it helps. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh

Re: [WSG] SEO and Flash

2009-01-15 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
different, not least because screen readers need to interact with Flash functionality not just read Flash content. However, sensible screen-reader users disable Flash. Not when they want to listen to videos and audio on the web, they don't. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [WSG] Frames/iFrames [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-01-14 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
to make assumptions about the height of the IFRAME content, and those assumptions will inevitably break down under some conditions. (Try bumping up your text size three or four steps and see what happens!) -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [WSG] Frames/iFrames [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-01-12 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/search/webcrawler/slurp-09.html?terms=frames ) I have a client that seems determined to use them despite my best advice. Use them how for what? -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis *** List Guidelines: http

Re: [WSG] Title attribute

2009-01-11 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
-title-attributes/ is a very useful discussion of the TITLE attribute from an accessibility perspective. I think the destination of a link is best made clear by the link text. TITLE attributes are useful to provide tooltip text for icons however. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [WSG] credibility of accessibility validator and evaluator

2008-12-31 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
-these are the two I frequently use. Those are likely using completely different rulesets again, so you have every reason to expect them to be different. They are as reliable as their rulesets. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis *** List

Re: [WSG] NCFH Site Check and CSS Issues

2008-12-27 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
and Safari. http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-content/ http://www.css3.info/image-replacement-in-css3/ -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join

Re: [WSG] NCFH Site Check and CSS Issues

2008-12-23 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
colors for increased legibility, the header _and its text_ will likely be invisible. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join

Re: [WSG] PopDown Menu NCFH

2008-12-18 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
those experienced with Pure CSS Drop-Downs assist my effort? Why does the design require Pure CSS drop downs? Is there a plan for keyboard accessibility here? Note the famous Pure CSS dropdowns tend to require JS anyway in IE6 to fake :hover support. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [WSG] Dropmenu accessibility and layout problem IE6

2008-12-14 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
options simple and visible. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***

Re: [WSG] the Name attribute

2008-12-04 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
standards compliance creators strive for. Standard is a pretty fuzzy word. Might be worth clarifying what definition of standard you are applying here. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] HTML/XHTML/XML - Question about the future of.

2008-11-25 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
David Hucklesby wrote: The validator still needs a DTD though. If you mean the W3C validator, then no, it just got experimental HTML5 support. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] HTML/XHTML/XML - Question about the future of.

2008-11-25 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
of them. Any practical instance of which, in practice, has to deal not only with tag soup HTML but also malformed XML, which rather undermines this point. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Replacing a paragraph with JS [was: Re: [WSG] JavaScript clarification please]

2008-10-26 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
; } } })(); //-- /script /body /html Hope that helps. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] JavaScript clarification please

2008-10-25 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
that wrong too: http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2008-August/016157.html -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join

Re: [WSG] Flash replace Javascript in Future?

2008-10-20 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
number if you're talking about, say, boosting sales from a website.) -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help

Re: [WSG] re: Semantic use of rel and rev in anchors

2008-10-20 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
much adoption). -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] labels as input wrappers + h6 in place of legend

2008-10-17 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
/forms/kbd.html -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [WSG] labels as input wrappers + h6 in place of legend

2008-10-16 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/H44.html and http://green-beast.com/blog/?p=254 I'd suggest just using: div class=fieldlabel for=field-idLabel text:/label input id=field-id name=field-key type=text/div (substituting whatever you feel most appropriate for DIV) -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Re: [WSG] Flash replace Javascript in Future?

2008-10-16 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#video http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#audio -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http