Re: [WSG] A Holiday Treat from PVII

Looking at the demo page, it looks like authors would be better using a faux-columns technique which would also remove the need for polling. Or is there a better reason to go the JS route? -- Thierry On Dec 21, 2011, at 1:02 PM, Al Sparber wrote: Happy Holidays from PVII Save time this

RE: [WSG] image substitution

I think my only option is to generate an image for the banner using the right font (or is there a better option?).  What is the current best practice for having an accessible text banner, while showing the image based banner? Are we still using the trick of shifting the text off the side

RE: [WSG] IE issues: display none vs absolute position for show/hide effect

Hi Tee, #mini-cart {position:absolute; width:300px; overflow: hidden} I didn't follow the whole thread, but seeing the above I have a suggestion: Try an explicit left value (i.e. left:0;) as IE is known to need that in many cases. -- Regards, Thierry @thierrykoblentz www.tjkdesign.com |

[WSG] What kind of unit is _qem ?

I see this unit being used with margin for example, in Mozilla and WebKit styles sheets, but I can't find any reference to it. Looks like it is mostly use to declare vertical values (top, bottom, before, after). Any clue? Thanks -- Regards, Thierry @thierrykoblentz www.tjkdesign.com |

RE: [WSG] What kind of unit is _qem ?

This question has come up on CSS discuss in the past. http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/104705 One answer: I believe qem stands for quirky em and is a proprietary Webkit syntax used to refer to a margin which can be collapsed when the page is in quirks mode. Thanks a lot

[WSG] Short CSS Quizz/Survey

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SNMWNW2 Give it a shot! -- Regards, Thierry @thierrykoblentz www.tjkdesign.com | www.ez-css.org | www.css-101.org *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

RE: [WSG] Title tags - site name then keywords?

When it comes to search engine optimisation, Stop. Build sites for people, not robots. Search engines are optimising to find the best sites for people, aim for the same target as they are. +1 -- Regards, Thierry @thierrykoblentz www.tjkdesign.com | www.ez-css.org | www.css-101.org

RE: [WSG] Horizontal Menu Bar Help Needed

Hi Emily, Thank you for your reply as well. I will check into http://webdesign-L.com/. Before you post to that list, make sure to check this page: http://webdesign-l.com/policies/ and obey the *rules* Regarding how-to keep navigation state, you could try this:

RE: [WSG] question about screen reader behavior when pulling in content via Ajax fetch

Screen readers doesn't process javascript, so no AJAX requests will be made. I don't think so. There are a couple of good article from Gez Lemon and Steve Faulkner about Ajax and SRs: http://juicystudio.com/article/making-ajax-work-with-screen-readers.php

RE: [WSG] Mobile testing methods or emulators

Thanks for the answers. I think the media queries could be the way to go. I'll give it a try. Did you try to download the SDKs? I installed the IOS Simulator and it works well (runs faster though). -- Regards, Thierry @thierrykoblentz www.tjkdesign.com | www.ez-css.org | www.css-101.org

RE: [WSG] Anchor won't position in IE 8

Here's the page in question: http://www.koisis.com/.clients/vascos/dev/facilities.htm Anchor tag (View Gallery) is in the div with the Image to Come image. If you look at this link in FF (et. al) you'll see it's positioned correctly. Now switch to IE 8 (probably ie 7 as well) and

[WSG] HTML5: bulletproofing

I don't know if many people have adopted this approach yet, but I wrote something about the potential issues: http://www.css-101.org/articles/thoughts_on_the_new_html_elements_and_surrog ate_divs/ Any and all feedback welcome. -- Regards, Thierry @thierrykoblentz www.tjkdesign.com |

RE: [WSG] why :first-child pseudo-class doesn't work for some selectors/elements?

An alternative to get the first dd in a dl: :first-child + dd { ... } That would not be a sure thing as this could match a dt too -- Regards, Thierry @thierrykoblentz www.tjkdesign.com | www.ez-css.org | www.css-101.org

RE: [WSG] why :first-child pseudo-class doesn't work for some selectors/elements?

An alternative to get the first dd in a dl: :first-child + dd { ... } That would not be a sure thing as this could match a dt too Scratch that, I didn't have my coffee yet ;) -- Regards, Thierry @thierrykoblentz www.tjkdesign.com | www.ez-css.org | www.css-101.org

RE: [WSG] why :first-child pseudo-class doesn't work for some selectors/elements?

The :first-child pseudo-class represents an element that is the first child of some other element.. I have often used li:first-child or li a:first child in different section of a page, why is that I can get the first-child in, say, #hdr li:first-child .sidebox li:first-child (and it

RE: [WSG] looping and inputs

HI Nancy, We have a situation where there is a checkbox within a loop, there could be 1 to as many as 50 instances depending on the results of a query. The id is checkbox and and is needed to remain the same for dynamic reasons according to the engineer. If they need something that

RE: [WSG] screen reader friendly and keyboard accessible popup?

With Collapsible, it's largely a UI/Design choice, structurally, the content in it is part of the main content, it's just a simple show/hide that makes good use of space, and apart from button that you recommended, a heading can be served as a trigger too depending on the content (for the

RE: [WSG] screen reader friendly and keyboard accessible popup?

Hi Tee, Please take a look at this example. The first example is keyboard accessible however I am also concern with the empty link that may create extra noise for screen reader, e.g if every single page has a popup, it will have two empty links, one is the popup trigger and the other the

RE: [WSG] HTML5 v. HTML 4.x

You can use it, but will anyone benefit from it? Assistive technologies don't support much, if any, of the new semantics. I don't know if search engines and other users of programmatic access to websites are currently able to make use of HTML5 markup, but I have not seen anything to indicate that

RE: [WSG] HTML5 v. HTML 4.x

At the moment, HTML5 doesn't really bring a significant benefit, but that will change (in years rather than months). I beg to differ. I believe there are a lot of great stuff that we can start using today (mostly related to form controls). See http://diveintohtml5.org/forms.html and this one

RE: [WSG] Accessible modal windows / lightboxes

Hi Steve, Yes, here's one we worked on - http://htmltools.moneymadeclear.org.uk/mortgage-calculator/index.aspx   What about using role=alertdialog on that container? http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices/#chobet -- Regards, Thierry @thierrykoblentz www.tjkdesign.com | www.ez-css.org |

RE: [WSG] CSS variable navigational menu`

These two essentially are the same. I am assuming the menu is controlled by a javascript, best practise is to use the absolute positioning to control submenu and use the toogle or mouseover to trigger the sub-level. I'm not sure this is considered best practice as keyboard users would have

RE: [WSG] CSS lists

These come to mind??? The appropriate w3c list, and... http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/ http://csscreator.com/ http://bytes.com/ Thanks David, but I'm not a big fan of fora (I prefer mailing lists). Even though a forum like sitepoint has great threads (i.e. Test Your CSS Skills). Check this

[WSG] CSS lists

Hi all, Besides the CSS-D list, which CSS lists would you recommend subscribing to? Thanks, -- Regards, Thierry @thierrykoblentz www.tjkdesign.com | www.ez-css.org | www.css-101.org *** List Guidelines:

RE: [WSG] IE hasLayout - the long and short of it

Hi David, It appears to be the existence of hasLayout on the .vcalendar that causes the problem (due to it being floated...) I don't think this is the issue per se. Imho, the problem is that this float is width-less. Give it with a width and things should work the way you want. -- Regards,

[WSG] CSS-101

http://www.css-101.org Happy New Year! Bonne Année! -- Regards, Thierry @thierrykoblentz www.tjkdesign.com | www.ez-css.org | www.css-101.org *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:

RE: [WSG] CSS-101

@Diego: Smartphones are not the best device to use here since the idea behind the demo pages is to allow people to edit/tweak CSS declarations via their favorite dev tool. The goal is to make people get their hands under the hood to do their own investigation - to find out what the simplest

RE: [WSG] Re: WSG Digest

Using IE conditional comments on the html tag, you can target each version of IE.  You can does not mean you should... In a comment [1] on forabeautifulweb, Molly Holzschlag says: Please, please don’t design for browsers. [1]

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

Personally I think it is reasonable to take this approach, given the age of IE6 and its declining market share. However I would be interested in the attitude of other developers. Imho, we should take care of any layout issue, but not try to get fancy effects via extra markup, images, filters,

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

The reason for this is twofold though: firstly, you want to coax people off of IE6. I don't think that's our job... -- Regards, Thierry www.tjkdesign.com | www.ez-css.org | @thierrykoblentz *** List Guidelines:

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

The reason for this is twofold though: firstly, you want to coax people off of IE6. I don't think that's our job... Who better? Wouldn't you rather IE6/7 disappear sooner than later? You enjoy the extra effort the too many years of its massive non-conformity causes? Most people who

RE: [WSG] alt text on email graphic

This article might also help: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/spam/ I'm not sure about that. It is more than *8* years old... -- Regards, Thierry www.tjkdesign.com | www.ez-css.org | @thierrykoblentz *** List

RE: [WSG] Fixed-position menus?

Here is a link illustrating what I mean: http://thinkplan.org/menupersist.jpg What are peoples' thoughts on this kind of menu? I'm told that IE 6 doesn't support this kind of menu...IIRC, it involves position: fixed; How key is IE 6, and are people simply not going with this kind

RE: [WSG] css

http://203.193.216.214/ I have an issue with this menu it works fine but the client has asked when you hover over top menu that the sub menu becomes visible and the stays there until you hover over than part of the top menu. If I was to move the mouse anywhere on the screen the menu sub

RE: [WSG] HTML5 - Marking up forms

Understandable; however, with the change in HTML5 from Definition Lists to Description lists, would it not be more semantically valuable to mark forms up using dt and dd, for labels and inputs, providing the document with a more solid structure? As stated, my concern with this is the lack of

RE: [WSG] XHTML or HTML?

Any thoughts on which we ought to be using, and what information ought to be up at top of an HTML page, along with !DOCTYPE, etc? I'd go with !DOCTYPE html with nothing above that -- Regards, Thierry www.tjkdesign.com | www.ez-css.org | @thierrykoblentz

RE: [WSG] A simple IE and JS detection method?

snip On the second pahe I've checked (http://www.projectseven.com/products/menusystems/pmm2/index.htm), I found these: !--[if IE 7] link href=/06_includes/ie7.css rel=stylesheet type=text/css ![endif]-- !--[if IE 6] link href=/06_includes/ie6.css rel=stylesheet type=text/css

RE: [WSG] A simple IE and JS detection method?

How, without using conditional comments at all, do I target IE 6,7, and 8 I was asking how I'd be able to target all three *without* any CCs. Using the basic filters you could go this route: http://tjkdesign.com/lab/ie-filters.asp For version 9+, nothing's sure ;-) -- Regards, Thierry

RE: [WSG] A simple IE and JS detection method?

Thank you, Georg. Your valuable comments in that file actually convinced me to stay with the Paul Irish CCs method. It just seems safer, as well as relatively easy to understand. After all, this: .ie8 .hacked-element {...} seems to me clearer than @media all { html:lang(en)

RE: [WSG] A simple IE and JS detection method?

goes against the separation of the three layers No it doesn't, it's purely presentational. No better or worse than li class=last imho, CCs have nothing to do with the presentational layer, they are part of the structural layer and they are junk markup if you ask me :) -- Regards, Thierry

RE: [WSG] A simple IE and JS detection method?

It must've come from that article, it looks vaguely familiar. Personally I saw it as a furtherance to the hasJS technique. My perspective was to remove separate style sheets, and obscure hacks, purely to simplify editing exactly as Paul Irish's article states. Without using * html and

RE: [WSG] attribute selectors to target external and internal links

This rule works a[href^=http] Problem is almost every CMS system uses absolute url for internal link, this makes it impossible to target just the external link without the content editor having to add a class to it. If you deal with absolute paths, you should be able to match internal

RE: [WSG] So this is *the* good accessible keyboard supported dropdown menu?

On Behalf Of Al Sparber From: Thierry Koblentz thierry.koble...@gmail.com What is the solution you're talking about? That link you posted does not tell us much about your own simplistic, unsophisticated way, nor what is your different view of menu Accessibility. It must be so

RE: [WSG] So this is *the* good accessible keyboard supported dropdown menu?

Probably. I think there is a faction in the accessibility community that believes a web page menu should work like a desktop application or OS menu. The problem is that web surfing civilians who use the keyboard are accustomed to the tab key (or equiv) and not the arrow keys for navigating a

RE: [WSG] [att] disables element in :focus?

Is this expected behavior or the support is still lacking? I have this declared in CSS for HTML5 required attributed: input type=email name=email id=email required [required]{background-color:#E0} input:focus, texture:focus {background: #464646;color: #fff;border-color:

RE: [WSG] HTM5 Semantic markup overly done?

Hi Tee, I thought this is suffice but then I am not sure as these HTML5 tags are still too new for me. section id=articles article h2.../h2 p.../p /article article h2.../h2 p.../p /article /section What about something like this? ol id=articles li

RE: [WSG] HTM5 Semantic markup overly done?

ol id=articles li article header h1a href=#Article Title/a/h1 /header pLorem ipsum dolor sit amet, .../p /article /li li article header h1a href=#Article Title/a/h1 /header pgiat nulla

RE: [WSG] html5 issue

/ is not necessary to close the meta tag. meta charset=utf-8 Maybe this solve the problem. Imho, the / should make no difference, I believe the problem is that this meta is too far down in the markup. The OP should try to put that meta right after head -- Regards, Thierry

RE: [WSG] Paul Irish/Divya Manian HTML5 Boilerplate

I rather liked the conditionals around the body. What's not to like? Imho, it goes against the separation of structure and presentation (plus it messes up with the cascade), but I can understand why they are doing this. Since most people strongly believe that CSS validation is a must, they have

RE: [WSG] attribute selectors and validation

Regarding performance, using a class may be a better choice: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/writing_efficient_css Interesting article. I wonder if it is still true -- the last update was 2000 for that page. 2000 is the date for when the original article

RE: [WSG] attribute selectors and validation

At the very basic level, the article exemplifies h1[rel=external]{color : red;} used with the html: h1 rel=externalAttribute Equals/h1 As others have said, this is an invalid use of rel. We could change his example from: h2 id=first-title class=magical rel=friendDavid Walsh/h2

RE: [WSG] CSS Expandable Menu

As a follow-up to my original email, the following methods have been very well designed from the accessibility point of view: http://juicystudio.com/article/ecmascriptmenu.php http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200705/accessible_expanding_and_c o llapsing_menu/ A further example

RE: Using CSS instead of JS for accessibility (was Re: [WSG] CSS Expandable Menu)

Hi Mathew, http://tjkdesign.com/articles/keyboard_friendly_dropdown_menu/EK.asp I have a bug report... tested against FF 3.6.4 and IE6 (no bug under Chrome 5.0.376) Steps to reproduce: - click on background - tab to focus first menu item - hit enter to display sub-items - tab through to

RE: Using CSS instead of JS for accessibility (was Re: [WSG] CSS Expandable Menu)

Try this for CSS menus with keyboard support: http://carroll.org.uk/sandbox/suckerfish/bones2.html This menu may be accessible, but is it usable? Unless I am missing something, keyboard users need to go through *every single link* in the menu to reach the last item :-( I have these two:

RE: Using CSS instead of JS for accessibility (was Re: [WSG] CSS Expandable Menu)

Hi Mike, Sorry to say this but the keyboard friendly version: http://tjkdesign.com/articles/keyboard_friendly_dropdown_menu/EK.asp Only fires, via keyboard, on Articles E-K in IEv8 or Firefox. This is by design. Keyboard users could not reach these pages if they were not focusable at least

RE: [WSG] CSS Expandable Menu

Hi Grant, I'm trying to avoid use of Javascript due to accessibility concerns. There is no problem with using a javascript powered menu as long as that menu is accessible with javascript off. As a side note, pure CSS menus usually come with usability issues. -- Regards, Thierry

RE: [WSG] Re: IE 6 Nightmare plus new margin problem

I stated earlier that after I got help on my previous IE6 problem that my mainContent div was shifted over to the left in Firefox. http://www.jasonbyer.com/dev/new/ 1. remove display:inline from #mainContent 2. remove the left margin on the div with no ID (the one that follows #ddtopmenubar)

RE: [WSG] IE 6 Nightmares

I’ve been racking my brain trying to solve a CSS problem and I was hoping somebody here can point me in the right direction.  I’m developing a site that has to work in all modern browsers and IE 6.  Here is the link to a sample page: http://www.jasonbyer.com/dev/new/ The problem that I’m having

RE: [WSG] IE 6 Nightmares

To concur with Thierry, the float on #mainContent appears unnecessary on this page. Give it a margin, or padding, to push the content off the left bar and you should be good to go. These two containers are siblings, so if the OP uses padding or margin to push the content off the left bar he

RE: [WSG] recovering html and web projects

I'm taking care of Marvin, please do not reply to this thread Thanks From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Marvin Hunkin Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 12:05 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] recovering html and web projects

RE: [WSG] NVDA-screen reader software for windows

Sorry I wasn't clear. Does NVDA support everything that a paid program such as JAWs supports? That I couldn't tell you, but what I can say is that NVDA is a solid SR, with great ARIA support, though I believe it works better on Firefox than IE (re: change of content a la Ajax). As a side

RE: [WSG] NVDA-screen reader software for windows

Included amongst the inventions was Screen Reader software for Windows, that was not only programmed by two blind computer users, is licensed open source and thus freely available. It is called NVDA. We use it for testing. It's very light and simple to use and you can't beat the price :) As a

RE: [WSG] IE8 bug?

I have run in to what seems to be an IE8 bug - IE8 doesn't respond to internal links (as in, same page links) on a demo site I'm working onyet IE6 and IE7 do! eg. a id=top name=top/a ul liblah blah blah/li liblah blah blah/li /ul a href=#topback to top/a I tried Googling and

RE: [WSG] Rendering mismatch in IE6 and IE7

I am working on a project that uses JSF with Richfaces and Ajax4jsf. All the pages were developed using IE7.0 and they appear properly on it. The same page is rendered a bit differently on the other browsers such as Firefox, Chrome. But the discrepancy is only w.r.t to the borders that are

RE: [WSG] Use CSS to target last 2 list items

Just wondering, is it possible to use the nth-child in CSS2 to target the last 2 items of an unordered list? I know you can do nth-last-child, but I wanted to target the last TWO list items. Is this possible? I believe this is CSS*3*, so support is not that great -- Regards, Thierry

RE: [WSG] Ie7 test?

Can anyone guess why the columns overlap? http://freemealcenter.com The first thing I'd try is to remove the float declaration on the fixed element -- Regards, Thierry www.tjkdesign.com | www.ez-css.org *** List

RE: [WSG] Ie7 test?

Add an extra div within left_column, and declare the position:fixed in the new div instead. Or, since you already have an extra div, add this to screen.css: .left_column { width: 220px; float: left; } .left_column .column_cushion { width: 180px; position: fixed; } I don't think there

RE: [WSG] the mysteries of overflow: hidden

From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Jody Tate Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 2:05 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] the mysteries of overflow: hidden Exactly. The magic confounds me.

RE: [WSG] FINAL VERSION OF MY SITE

From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Dani Iswara Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2010 6:26 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] FINAL VERSION OF MY SITE Marvin, For the access keys and title attributes, I do agree with Thierry. I

RE: [WSG] Progressive Enhancement

From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Micky Hulse Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 9:54 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Progressive Enhancement Hi, Does anyone have any good resources for current progressive enhancement

RE: [WSG] FINAL VERSION OF MY SITE

From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Marvin Hunkin Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 2:47 PM To: WSG@WEBSTANDARDSGROUP.ORG Subject: [WSG] FINAL VERSION OF MY SITE HI. CAN SOME ONE TAKE A FINAL LOOK AT THIS SITE. AND GOT 2 FONTS. ONE

RE: [WSG] CSS Validation Error

-moz is a vendor prefix (not CSS3) -- Regards, Thierry | www.tjkdesign.com From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Anderson Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 3:12 PM To: wsg Subject: [WSG] CSS Validation Error When I am

RE: [WSG] FINAL VERSION OF MY SITE

From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Karl Lurman Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 4:15 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] FINAL VERSION OF MY SITE For your named anchor tags (a name=Marvin/a, they don't have to be inside

RE: [WSG] FINAL VERSION OF MY SITE

From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Stuart Foulstone Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 4:55 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] FINAL VERSION OF MY SITE Hi Marvin, On Wed, February 3, 2010 11:50 pm, Webb, KerryA wrote:

RE: [WSG] FINAL VERSION OF MY SITE

From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Karl Lurman Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 5:22 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] FINAL VERSION OF MY SITE Fwiw, I don't agree about accesskeys [1]. The article on your site seems

RE: [WSG] FINAL VERSION OF MY SITE

From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Joshua Street Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 5:53 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] FINAL VERSION OF MY SITE On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Paul Novitski p...@juniperwebcraft.com

RE: [WSG] CSS Validation Error

From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Joshua Street Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 5:59 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] CSS Validation Error On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Thierry Koblentz thierry.koble...@gmail.com

RE: [WSG] CSS Validation Error

different names for the rules, watch out for that. Theoretically, when a browser supports border-radius, it should switch from its vendor specific rule to the standard rule. Cheers James On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Thierry Koblentz thierry.koble...@gmail.com wrote: -moz is a vendor prefix

RE: [WSG] Assistance with flash example sites

From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Russ Weakley Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 7:52 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Assistance with flash example sites Hi people, A colleague has just asked me for some examples of Flash

RE: [WSG] fonts

-Original Message- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Marvin Hunkin Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 8:29 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] fonts hi. i have verdana. and it reads the name. but only have got Arial

RE: [WSG] Accessibility does not matter!

From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Jason Grant Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 1:06 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Accessibility does not matter! @Matthew Pennell You are confused with the 'broken wrist' issue. If I have

RE: [WSG] Accessibility does not matter!

-Original Message- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Jason Grant Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 2:40 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Accessibility does not matter! @Thierry I think keyboard accessibility is

RE: [WSG] Accessibility does not matter!

From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Stewart Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 2:51 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Accessibility does not matter! Accessibility does matter, but I do think that many people on this list

RE: [WSG] Accessibility does not matter!

Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 3:46 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Accessibility does not matter! Sorry to ask again, but please explain how the site could be made accessible whilst maintaining the same ease of use? The same ease of use?! Drop the mouse and give it a

RE: [WSG] Accessibility does not matter!

From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Jason Grant Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 4:24 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Accessibility does not matter! @Thierry Why does Google not care about accessibility? Do they believe in

RE: [WSG] Accessibility does not matter!

On Behalf Of Patrick H. Lauke Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2010 10:22 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Accessibility does not matter! @Oliver Boermans IE6 / Intranets reply. Today we make a decision to use JQuery as a framework for AJAX/JS. In two year JQuery gets

RE: [WSG] Accessibility does not matter!

inaccessible and just wait until an employee with disabilities gets hired, then redo it all? Also, an employee with no disability today could have one tomorrow. @Thierry Koblentz 'Could' is not something we should be developing for. We need to know who we are developing for, As I suggested

RE: [WSG] Minimal forms or marking up a search field

If you are looking for a simple search form (i.e. the input box into which user enters a search term followed by 'Search' submit button) you should be using something like this. label for=sSearch/label input type=text name=s id=s / input type=submit value=Search class=primary / You do

RE: [WSG] Minimal forms or marking up a search field

From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Oliver Boermans Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2010 8:21 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Minimal forms or marking up a search field On 31 January 2010 13:45, Thierry Koblentz thierry.koble

RE: [WSG] :: makeready ::

Comments and suggestions on this site appreciated. markup http://chelseacreekstudio.com/mhr/ css http://chelseacreekstudio.com/mhr/css/style.css Hi David, Minor things: I think the h1 looks small and that there is not enough padding around the text in the menu. I think more padding would

RE: [WSG] playing with css

I have one question I can't seem to find and answer to below is all my css in a document I have created. It is xhtml transitional. My document works fine except when I add float:left; to my content div. It will not stay in the wrapper. I know that it must be a simple answer. I have tried

RE: [WSG] playing with css

Wow That work but why? http://tjkdesign.com/articles/clearing-floats_and_block-formatting_context.a sp -- Regards, Thierry | www.tjkdesign.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

RE: [WSG] index page vallidation

Hi Marvin, You have br elements that are children of the list. You need to remove these from there. You cannot have anything between List Items (LI) Start by fixing this and then revalidate. -- Regards, Thierry | www.tjkdesign.com -Original Message- From:

RE: [WSG] text-shadow: no-shadow ?

According to spec, it has no inheritence but it does in both browsers. I changed it to li instead of li a, the screen shot taken is from li.  #element li{ text-shadow: 2px 2px 2px #000;} http://picasaweb.google.com/weblist99/UntitledAlbum Hi Tee, Inheritance does not come into play here.

RE: [WSG] css tutorial

Also, please try our Opera Web Standards Curriculum section 27 entitled CSS basics, written and contributed by Christian Heilmann. Here is the hyperlink to it: http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/27-css-basics/ There are a bunch of typos in there. - Extra semi-colons, - The :first-line and

RE: [WSG] css tutorial

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 7:03 AM, Chris F.A. Johnson ch...@cfajohnson.com wrote: Every other discussion group I participate in regards clagnut with derision. There is no good reason for anything other than font-size: 100%. That's not an explanation. ALA published a follow-up by Richard

RE: [WSG] AAA Accessibility and validation

In the example you provided, I'd do this: 1) move zoom: 1 to your IE6 rule (and to IE7 rule if necessary) 2) place the IE6 and IE7 rules in an IE ONLY sheet 3) use a conditional comment to call the IE sheet Would that work? If so, please explain your reasons for not doing so. Here are

RE: [WSG] AAA Accessibility and validation

Nick Zoom:1 is not bad enough to warrant a conditional comment and separate style sheet. It's a valid rule that basically says show the screen at 100%. A user style sheet can still over-ride this rule. It's an easy way to add hasLayout without causing other issues. This is what

RE: [WSG] AAA Accessibility and validation

Hi David, On 1/13/10 12:24 PM, Thierry Koblentz wrote: Nick Zoom:1 is not bad enough to warrant a conditional comment and separate style sheet. It's a valid rule that basically says show the screen at 100%. A user style sheet can still over-ride this rule. It's an easy way to add hasLayout

RE: [WSG] Looking for Accessible and Standards based Drupal Main Navigation Module

Hi David, (shameless plug) http://tjkdesign.com/articles/Pure_CSS_Dropdown_Menus.asp Fwiw, I've used it without issue (other than my own, of course). Nice stuff, me /thimk/... Thanks for the feedback -- Regards, Thierry | www.tjkdesign.com

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