Re: [WSG] Question - th appearing in scope of another th

2006-02-17 Thread Gez Lemon
On 17/02/06, Jamie Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...I've never been sure what the context of a table cell is which is following more than one th in the same scope. The section on table rendering by non-visual user agents in the HTML specification [1] will shed some light. When a table cell

Re: [WSG] Unstyling named anchors

2005-10-31 Thread Gez Lemon
On 31/10/05, Patrick H. Lauke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thierry Koblentz wrote: name is used for old browsers. And I'm pretty sure it validates against a Strict DTD (HTML or XHTML 1.0). Please correct me if I'm wrong here... No, you're indeed correct. Up to XHTML 1.0 Strict it's perfectly

Re: [WSG] Valid Null Value

2005-09-12 Thread Gez Lemon
On 11/09/05, Chris Kennon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've discovered that leaving the value blank tabindex=does not invalidate the page, or upset tidy. It does invalidate the page, it's just that the validators aren't catching it. The attribute value must be a number in the range 0 to 32767

Re: [WSG] Valid Null Value

2005-09-12 Thread Gez Lemon
Hi Ted, On 12/09/05, Drake, Ted C. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you have multiple tabindex=0 in a document? Yes, you can have multiples of any numbers (in the range 0 to 32767). Positive numbers with multiple values are visited in the order they appear in the character stream. Best regards,

Re: [WSG] window.open and popup blockers

2005-08-16 Thread Gez Lemon
On 16/08/05, Thierry Koblentz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see one. In that particular case, such behaviour makes sure that the user still can reach the href value. IMO, it makes sense, and AFAIK, that's how Opera's blocker works. It ignores *both* statements, window.open *and* return false.

Re: [WSG] window.open and popup blockers

2005-08-16 Thread Gez Lemon
On 16/08/05, Thierry Koblentz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm talking about a simple: onclick=window.open(this.href,'myPopup'); return false; In this particular case, if you consider normal to arbitrary ignore the window.open statement, then why do you consider outrageous to ignore return false.

Re: [WSG] attribute selectors question

2005-08-16 Thread Gez Lemon
Hi Ted, On 16/08/05, Drake, Ted C. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a quick question. I don't seem to be running on all cylinders and I can't remember how to write the css that would look for a link that has .pdf in the href. A [href???.pdf]... Only CSS3 has attribute selectors that would be

Re: [WSG] Screen readers, flash, DOM

2005-08-15 Thread Gez Lemon
Hi Jan, Maybe strange questions - Do the users of screen readers have flash? (I have no idea for a reason why they shloud) Some screen readers sit on top of browsers like IE. If IE has Flash embedded in it, and the Flash has been made accessible (see http://www.webaim.org/techniques/flash/),

Re: [WSG] Screen readers, flash, DOM

2005-08-15 Thread Gez Lemon
Hi Jan, On 15/08/05, Jan Brasna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some screen readers sit on top of browsers like IE. If IE has Flash embedded in it, and the Flash has been made accessible (see http://www.webaim.org/techniques/flash/), then it's exposed to the screen reader. The reason that screen

Re: [WSG] accessibility - opening new windows philosophy

2005-08-15 Thread Gez Lemon
Hi Thierry, This short script doesn't name the window, so it should spawn multiple popups. I'd use: onclick=window.open(this.href,'myPopup'); return false; As a side note, some blockers kill these popups. The window.open function returns true if successful, otherwise false. You could use the

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Re:_[WSG]_WCAG_1.0_=A710.5?=

2005-03-30 Thread Gez Lemon
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 11:17:28 +0200, Piero Fissore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody know why Bobby doesn't consider this structure valid (WCAG 1.0 ยง10.5)? dl dtBlog/dt dda href=#01/a/dd dda href=#02/a/dd dda href=#03/a/dd /dl It's a bug. I vaguely remember

Re: [WSG] Dilemma: Useful, additional attributes in elements, invalidating HTML

2005-03-20 Thread Gez Lemon
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 08:55:26 -0600, Steve Bryant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: script type=text/javascript document.getElementById('EmailAddress').setAttribute(required,true); document.getElementById('EmailAddress').setAttribute(validation,email); /script This would be the slightly more

Re: [WSG] Dilemma: Useful, additional attributes in elements, invalidating HTML

2005-03-20 Thread Gez Lemon
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 08:17:50 +1200, Sigurd Magnusson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gez; So you're under the opinion, if you're setting attributes, only for later retrieval (i.e. that the user agent is specifically being asked to ignore the attributes), that this is poor design? I don't necessarily

Re: [WSG] Making accessible a one-text field form with an image submit button?

2005-03-19 Thread Gez Lemon
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 20:51:33 +1300, Sigurd Magnusson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I could put the label around the image button, or have a blank one, but this sort of defeats the purpose in my opinion... ideas? Both Patrick and Roger are correct. It's the text field that requires a label in order

Re: [WSG] Dilemma: Useful, additional attributes in elements, invalidating HTML

2005-03-19 Thread Gez Lemon
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 15:04:23 +1200, Sigurd Magnusson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Over the past few years, we have built up a library of rather useful Javascript libraries that we thought were a very elegant solution for adding behaviour to menu systems and forms. These have been used on dozens of

Re: [WSG] Dilemma: Useful, additional attributes in elements, invalidating HTML

2005-03-19 Thread Gez Lemon
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 03:46:21 +, Gez Lemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: input type=text name=EmailAddress required=true class=email/ Didn't mean to leave the required attribute in, sorry :-) input type=text name=EmailAddress class=required email/ Cheers, Gez

Re: [WSG] Acronym within th Screen Readers

2005-03-16 Thread Gez Lemon
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:51:46 -, Jamie Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, Does anyone know what the output for a Screen Reader would be for example; thacronym title=Cascading Style SheetsCSS/acronym/th JAWS can be configured to read the title attribute of abbreviations and

Re: [WSG] problems with nodetype

2005-03-11 Thread Gez Lemon
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 08:23:40 -0500, Alan Trick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm getting undefined instead of DOCUMENT_NODE or 9? I used if(aNode.tagName){ ...} to achive the required result, but it's a hack and I want to know what's wrong with nodeType? I suspect it's because you've returned a

Re: [WSG] Quoting Code Snippets

2005-03-11 Thread Gez Lemon
The code tag is the correct element to use to markup code snippets. You could add a rule to your CSS to make it preserve white space: code { white-space: pre; } The obvious problem is that it won't preserve the white space when CSS isn't available. An alternative is to place the code tags

Re: [WSG] Information about validation logos

2005-03-04 Thread Gez Lemon
Hi Stephen, On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:13:28 -, Stevio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have put together a page using some information from various sites and adding / changing bits to come up with the following page: http://www.fit2gether.co.uk/aboutsite.html You will see that there is a small

Re: [WSG] XHTML 1.0, Tables and Firefox

2005-02-27 Thread Gez Lemon
Here in Firefox on Windows I see space below the top row of images: http://elmbrook.org/navigation2.html The border is in there only to show what's going on. In IE it looks fine. I assume it's user error. Any hints? Thanks. Jeff It's because Firefox is rendering the document in standards

Re: [WSG] XHTML 1.0, Tables and Firefox

2005-02-27 Thread Gez Lemon
I wrote: I mention a similar effect when transitional HTML documents are served as application/xhtml+xml, whcih forces Apologies, that should read XHTML documents, as only the most unstable person would deliver an HTML document as application/xhtml+xml Best regards, Gez

Re: [WSG] To display or not to display validation logos?

2005-02-26 Thread Gez Lemon
Steven wrote: Also, excuse my slight ignorance here, but just because a page validates as XHTML and CSS compatible, does that make it accessible? True. It doesn't even necessarily mean that it's semantically correct, as there tends to be a trend in pages that just consist of a load of divs

Re: [WSG] Attribute Values

2005-02-26 Thread Gez Lemon
What's more in-spec: div id=hello/div Or div id='hello'/div Both versions are acceptable, although the de-facto standard is to use double-quotes. Best regards, Gez _ Supplement your vitamins http://juicystudio.com