hi James,
These articles might be of some help:
A Review of Free, Online Accessibility Tools
http://www.webaim.org/techniques/articles/freetools/
Do-It-Yourself Accessibility
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/yourself-accessibility/2
cheers
Iza
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Hi - does
Hi James
I personally find that Cynthia is a better automated tool than Bobby -
and it certainly helps you find fix up errors quicker, although I
still really prefer to do accessibility testing myself by using Jaws
Lynx.
Cheers
Jeff Lowder
Accessibility 1st
Website:
Unless I'm missing the point entirely, what's wrong with:
a img {border:none;}
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Hi all,
Great Idea,
For the categories you may want to download the dmoz RDF dump from
http://rdf.dmoz.org/. Get the structure.rdf.u8.gz. That should give you a
pretty good comprehensive category listing.
Dmoz has put a lot of time planing their categories so it's bound to be the
best available.
Just a
Hi everybody - my client wants the pages on her site setup so that they
print out exactly how they look on the screen. At present the short pages
are printing okay but the longer pages are leaving paragraphs out.
I would appreciate it if someone could explain how to set this up or point
me to a
Thanks for the responses!
Has anyone played with Usablenet? Opinions?
Thanks
James
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On 24/06/2004, at 5:02 PM, Craig Stump wrote:
Unless I'm missing the point entirely, what's wrong with:
a img {border:none;}
Been there, tried that. The border is being applied to the a, not
the img.
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James Ellis wrote:
First taxi off the rank is Andy Budd's book listing at
http://webstandardsgroup.org/resources/#cat31 - Andy, feel free to
update the listing.
Cheers James.
I probably should add some of my articles as well, shouldn't I?
Andy Budd
http://www.message.uk.com/
A directory is a good idea, however there are quite a few sites doing
similar things these days.
Somebody could write a bot that validates as it crawls. Then you could
have a standards compliant SE.
Andy Budd
http://www.message.uk.com/
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I think there is a problem inherent in using these tools.
HTML validators work because they check a document against a 'machine
readable' set of grammars. Accessibility tools can't do this. What they
do is look at a site based on a set of guidelines. However these
guidelines are open to
AFAIK this is not possible.
One main reason is that the vast majority of browsers will turn off
background images and colours when printing
Somehow you have to explain that a computer screen != A4 page (for non
programmers a computer screen does not equal an A4 page)
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Andy Budd wrote:
A directory is a good idea, however there are quite a few sites doing
similar things these days.
Somebody could write a bot that validates as it crawls. Then you could
have a standards compliant SE.
Andy Budd
http://www.message.uk.com/
OMTP is a new standards body attempting to promote open standards
amongst mobile manufacturers.
With the messy state of Web standards compliance on mobiles, an
organisation like this is long overdue although I noticed NTT DoCoMo is
a member which is rather like inviting Hannibal Lector for
Hi all,
I'm making good progress with web standards and
accessibility, but I'm stuck on a problem with floated divs for displaying
thumbnails on an art gallery site.
No problem getting the thumbnail-caption
combinations to display using left floated divs - thanks to Russ Weakley's float
Interesting Idea, but isn't this something the web standards project
is/should be doing?
Kyle Barrow wrote:
OMTP is a new standards body attempting to promote open standards
amongst mobile manufacturers.
With the messy state of Web standards compliance on mobiles, an
organisation like this is
Kyle Barrow wrote:
OMTP is a new standards body attempting to promote open standards
amongst mobile manufacturers.
With the messy state of Web standards compliance on mobiles, an
organisation like this is long overdue although I noticed NTT DoCoMo
is a member which is rather like inviting
On Thursday, June 24, 2004, at 09:31 PM, John Penlington wrote:
No problem getting the thumbnail-caption combinations to display using left floated divs - thanks to Russ Weakley's float tutorials.
But I just cannot find the way to get these thumbnail-caption combinations to align at the
It would be great if WASP took a greater interest in mobile Web
standards but that is not happening right now. OMTP goes beyond Web
standards encompassing all mobile technologies.
Kyle
On 2004 Jun 24, , at 20:43, Andy Budd wrote:
Interesting Idea, but isn't this something the web standards
But I just cannot find the way to get these thumbnail-caption combinations
to align at the *bottom* - rather than the top where they are now.
I managed to pull this off by creating a container div for each
image/caption pair that is always the same size. If you can determine what
your
On Thursday, June 24, 2004, at 11:01 PM, Trusz, Andrew wrote:
Couple of industrial strength options; both of which I've used. One is purely visual - organize the pictures by height. The pictures seem to come in roughly two heights so group them that way and they will mostly take care of
What if you changed your design a little
so you don't need to do that? Like for example putting the caption on the
top instead of the bottom?
I havent tried this but what about putting
the image and its caption in a div, then putting THAT in another div, with
fixed height attributes and
Just a reminder that the next WSG Melbourne Meeting is this Monday June 28.
Featuring Cameron Adams, who will discuss his personal site The Man in
Blue and how it was built to standards compliance.
From what I understand Cameron will focus on the intersection between
creativity and standards,
Nick Gleitzman] Problem with floated divs in gallery site
On
Thursday, June 24, 2004, at 11:01 PM, Trusz, Andrew
wrote:
Couple of industrial strength options; both of which I've
used. One is purely visual - organize the pictures by height..
No
good if the client
Hi all,
Thanks for those suggestions. Unfortunately, my client requires the
thumbnail galleries to align exactly as I've shown with the table layout -
caption under image.
The test page is at:
http://www.bluemountainsgardener.info/fgtest/max_miller.asp
I cannot control either the height or
Dear Maureen Beattie,
As Neerav Bhatt said, printing pages exactly as they appear on the screen
isn't possible.
Eventualy you could use a script to resize print screen images, but you
would have to call users permission, an rely on their machines capacitys.
Yet, you can give alternative pages
I would appreciate it if someone could explain how to set this up or point
me to a tutorial on the subject.
This is a very good article from Alistapart should shed some light on it
for you:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/printyourway/
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On Friday, June 25, 2004, at 12:22 AM, John Penlington wrote:
I just cannot find a CSS way to emulate the table cell attribute
*valign='bottom'*. If I can do that, I can solve the problem.
In the embedded CSS I've used a class table.gallery{vertical-align:
bottom;
...} and it works with the
Hi all again!
RE: My problem with floated divs in gallery site - and trying to get those
thumbnail images to align at the bottom.
I've solved the problem - in two ways - and thanks for those suggestions.
You'll find the result at:
Here
is a solution my friend Brian came up with for a gallery page for my
class. I need to add the toggle.js script to make the gallery work, and it
isn't perfect, but gets the job done. Of course, that creatures image of
yours is a real problem.
http://www.sdco-op.com/palomar/gallery.html.
Justin French wrote:
If
we had *ascendant* selectors, my problem would be solved, but we don't:
imga { border:0; }
Bowman stopdesign.com solves the problem with a 'noline' class
on his linked image tags, but in this case, I can't edit the source of
the image tag, as it's
I believe I got it. You guys helped out a lot, especially Hugh.
Can you guys test again to make sure. It looks great on Mac in Safari
and IE5.2.3.
Can you test on PC please?
http://sonze.com/isl/temp/
Thank you,
Shane Helm
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Hi,
I found this wonderful site (http://www.mbusa.com/brand/index.jsp)
listed at the WSG section for full CSS
sites(http://webstandardsgroup.org/resources/#cat9). As today is my
Review and Research day, I've been peeking under the hood. If my
interpretation of the rather elegant code is
Are you serious? Is this possible?
Shane
On Jun 24, 2004, at 5:48 PM, ckimedia wrote:
Hi,
I found this wonderful site (http://www.mbusa.com/brand/index.jsp)
listed at the WSG section for full CSS
sites(http://webstandardsgroup.org/resources/#cat9). As today is my
Review and Research day, I've
The site may be wonderful in many ways but I dont approve of how they
handle an opera user:
You are using Opera 7.23
In order to view the online Mercedes Experience, either Netscape 6.2 or
above or Internet Explorer 5.x or above is required. We recommend you
update your browser by following the
I found this wonderful site (http://www.mbusa.com/brand/index.jsp)
If my
interpretation of the rather elegant code is correct, this site has a
second layout that is rendered if FLASH is not present. Can some one
please confirm or correct my observation. I've sent an e-mail and poked
They
On 25/06/2004, at 10:06 AM, Shane Helm wrote:
Are you serious? Is this possible?
On Jun 24, 2004, at 5:48 PM, ckimedia wrote:
Hi,
I found this wonderful site (http://www.mbusa.com/brand/index.jsp)
listed at the WSG section for full CSS
sites(http://webstandardsgroup.org/resources/#cat9). As
I have been actually using it this morning for the first time.
My first impression of the product was extremely simple to use. Coming
from a flash background, the time you save creating a presentation
through robodemo than flash is worth it, and you don't need flash
experience.
It works well
Thats _really_ bad
Browser checking is a thing of the past and should be gladly forgotten.
Something that we can all thank the web standards project for.
Is there a valid reason to do browser checking? I can't think of one...
Regards
Chris Blown
On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 10:30, Neerav wrote:
Phillips, Wendy wrote:
http://blogs.msdn.com/dmassy/archive/2004/06/16/157263.aspx
SOSDD Wendy. This horse is already bloody, mutilated, and decomposing on
the battlefield.
After the explosion on Channel9 forums, it irks me that Dave Massy and
Tony Chor still gawk at the vague requests
when
Maureen
Publishing some of the sites information to PDF may make your client
happy as PDF's will print out exactly how they look on the screen.
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