RE: ADMIN Re: [WSG] AOL mail problems? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2012-06-18 Thread Chris Vickery
Sorry Lea, I get around 100 emails a day. Accessibility is in the scope of my work. AOL definitely isn't. ... and if everyone on this forum had just a little bit of chatter OT then it makes it hard to find the posts on topic. c. On 16/06/12 9:35 AM, Chris Pearce wrote: I'm sorry but how is

RE: [WSG] flat form with check boxes [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2011-09-12 Thread Chris Vickery
is there for printing. Darren Lovelock MunkyOnline.comhttp://MunkyOnline.com On 12 Sep 2011, at 05:57, Chris Vickery chris.vick...@oaic.gov.aumailto:chris.vick...@oaic.gov.au wrote: Hi all, We’ve got some flat forms on our site, ie. They are not interactive forms, and have no submit button

[WSG] flat form with check boxes [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2011-09-11 Thread Chris Vickery
Hi all, We've got some flat forms on our site, ie. They are not interactive forms, and have no submit button. They are indicating that it's a check list that can be ticked once the page is printed. Someone suggested putting in regular check boxes and having no submit button, but wouldn't that

RE: [WSG] my final site [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-11-25 Thread Chris Vickery
Hi Marvin, The date and time pop up in your menu bar when you click on copyright... It's not accessibility or standards related but your copyright message needs fixing. It should at least read No unauthorised reproduction of material is allowed by the copyright holder. Any unauthorized person

RE: [WSG] Is pressing Enter to submit (or not) on forms an accessability issue? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-10-21 Thread Chris Vickery
] Is pressing Enter to submit (or not) on forms an accessability issue? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] 2009/10/21 Chris Vickery chris.vick...@privacy.gov.au: In this case it's for an input field, not a textarea, and enter will still not submit (unless you tab out) so in this case makes it contrary to 'native

[WSG] Is pressing Enter to submit (or not) on forms an accessability issue? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-10-20 Thread Chris Vickery
We're accessibility testing at the moment. We've got some email forms (ie. Put in your email address to subscribe - submit) that do not currently submit if you press enter. Personally I feel this should be an accessibility issue, but I am finding it difficult to locate any solid documentation

RE: [WSG] Is pressing Enter to submit (or not) on forms an accessability issue? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-10-20 Thread Chris Vickery
) wireless device From: Chris Vickery chris.vick...@privacy.gov.au Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:20:51 +1100 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.orgwsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Is pressing Enter to submit (or not) on forms an accessability issue? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED

RE: [WSG] accessibility: government [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-08-26 Thread Chris Vickery
There's also a guide for Australian Government agencies here: http://webpublishing.agimo.gov.au/ As a couple of people have said... at the end of the day it's just different flavours of W3C -Original Message- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On

RE: [WSG] Was given a shocker this week ... [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-04-06 Thread Chris Vickery
You used to be able to slice an image up in Photoshop and export it as HTML. I’m not even sure if you can still do that. It used to make THE ugliest code, maybe that’s how they did it, wouldn’t be the first time. Regarding copyright... if you’re in Australia there’s a book put out by

RE: [WSG] URL naming best practice guide? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-02-22 Thread Chris Vickery
That's an awesome help. Thanks everyone! http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/11/googles-seo-starter-guide.html http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990321.html http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI *** WARNING: The

[WSG] URL naming best practice guide? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-02-19 Thread Chris Vickery
Does anyone know where I could find a best practice guide to naming URLs? We're trying to keep our URLs descriptive like... www.whatever.com/news/events/index.html ...but not like this... www.whatever.com/news articles/Events Sent from m...@me.com/my.file I need it to pass on to a manager.

RE: [WSG] URL naming best practice guide? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-02-19 Thread Chris Vickery
[mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Chris F.A. Johnson Sent: Friday, 20 February 2009 1:29 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] URL naming best practice guide? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Chris Vickery wrote: Does anyone know where I could find a best

[WSG] What's the best way to place a link in a document? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-02-16 Thread Chris Vickery
What's the best way to place a link in a document? Is it more accessible to have your link in a sentence, as the URL, or as the word 'link'? ExampleA makes the information more readable but the link less visible ExampleB the link is visible and page a bit neater but target URL hidden ExampleC

RE: RE: [WSG] Accessibility testing [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-02-16 Thread Chris Vickery
That is a very cool tool. Nice job. -Original Message- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Jon Gunderson Sent: Tuesday, 17 February 2009 4:25 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Accessibility testing You can try the

RE: RE: [WSG] Accessibility testing [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-02-16 Thread Chris Vickery
That is a very cool tool. Nice job. -Original Message- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Jon Gunderson Sent: Tuesday, 17 February 2009 4:25 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Accessibility testing You can try the

RE: RE: [WSG] Accessibility testing [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-02-16 Thread Chris Vickery
That is a very cool tool. Nice job. -Original Message- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Jon Gunderson Sent: Tuesday, 17 February 2009 4:25 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Accessibility testing You can try the

RE: RE: [WSG] Accessibility testing [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-02-16 Thread Chris Vickery
That is a very cool tool. Nice job. -Original Message- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Jon Gunderson Sent: Tuesday, 17 February 2009 4:25 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Accessibility testing You can try the

RE: RE: [WSG] Accessibility testing [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-02-16 Thread Chris Vickery
That is a very cool tool. Nice job. -Original Message- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Jon Gunderson Sent: Tuesday, 17 February 2009 4:25 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Accessibility testing You can try the

RE: [WSG] Who are the Away on leave Notices from? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2008-11-05 Thread Chris Vickery
If you're using outlook just set up a rule. Something like... Where the subject line contains out of the office or autoreply then move it to (trash or junk mail or a subfolder) Works most of the time. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

RE: [WSG] URL length best practices [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2008-11-04 Thread Chris Vickery
More reasons to keep 'em short: 1. Makes it easy to quote URL (maybe over the phone) 2. I've seen a few email or publication programs break URLs where there's a line return, so breaks the hyperlink 3. Makes layout difficult for desktop publishers and marketing ie.

RE: [WSG] URL length best practices [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2008-11-04 Thread Chris Vickery
anyway. BAD IA IMHO Joe OK, in marketing terms you can easily create your own TinyURL by redirecting vimportant traffic through a rewrite. On 05/11/2008, at 12:40 PM, Chris Vickery wrote: More reasons to keep 'em short: 1. Makes it easy to quote URL (maybe over the phone) 2. I've seen

RE: [WSG] Standards and Adobe Contribute [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2008-11-02 Thread Chris Vickery
Reiterating what Gerard said yesterday, my experience has also been that the code is as compliant as the template you designed for the page. I've implemented many contribute systems for clients and without exception they've found it easy to use and does everything that they want. Some of these

[WSG] RE: Accessibility - Scanning PDFs [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2008-10-28 Thread Chris Vickery
I've been looking into this recently too. I found a lot of info from Adobe of how accessible Acrobat can be made, but my experience was that it takes a long time to set them up properly. The success (or not) comes from how cleanly the pages were set up in the first place, with proper heading

OT: RE: [WSG] Uppercase Tag Names [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2008-09-29 Thread Chris Vickery
Sorry. Slightly OT: Just a suggestion... there's every chance lecturer is just looking for a way to assess that you've got demonstrated knowledge of when upper and lower case is appropriate in HTML. If you discuss it with him he'll probably think it's great you're interested. If you approach

RE: [WSG] Skype changing format of my pages [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2008-08-26 Thread Chris Vickery
Hey Bob, I totally agree with Ted and designer, and people who have the phone number auto Skype 'thing' turned on will actually be expecting that highlighting on any phone numbers. You should make it clear that you're really reducing the accessibility of the page by disabling the feature, as

RE: [WSG] Lawsuits for inaccessible websites [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2008-08-17 Thread Chris Vickery
The AGIMO guidelines specify minimum A, preferably AA. http://webpublishing.agimo.gov.au/Accessibility From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Boyd Sent: Monday, 18 August 2008 8:58 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Lawsuits for inaccessible

[WSG] Issues making compliant code using Joomla! [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2008-08-14 Thread Chris Vickery
Hi, For anyone with experience in making a Joomla! site generate compliant code, are there any tips, tricks, pitfalls or advice that you could impart? We've got a company setting a site up for us in Joomla. Their other sites seemed to validate quite well, but it would be great to get