[WSG] A note from ADMIN - out of office and trimming replies

2007-05-08 Thread russ - maxdesign
Hi WSG peoples Two things to keep in mind - out of office messages and trimming replies. 1. OUT OF OFFICE --- If you go on holidays and set your out of the office message, make sure you change your mail status so you don't send out of the office mail to the list. To change

[WSG] Web Accessibility Workshops at the University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana

2007-05-08 Thread Jon Gunderson
The following are a series of hands-on workshops related to learning how to create universally accessible web resources to give participants the skill they need to create functionally accessible web resources. 2-Day

[WSG] wa state guidlines question

2007-05-08 Thread Jermayn Parker
Hi group, This may only relate to Western Australian people but someone else may know... I have a page that has links to a pdf and the client wanted to know whether it can be linked to a new window or not. They dont really care about best practises etc but rather what the state Internet

Re: [WSG] wa state guidlines question

2007-05-08 Thread Michael MD
I have a page that has links to a pdf and the client wanted to know whether it can be linked to a new window or not. They dont really care about best practises etc but rather what the state Internet guidlines are. I have looked through the 107 page doco but cannot find anything. no idea about

Re: [WSG] wa state guidlines question

2007-05-08 Thread Karl Lurman
Jermayn, I think that it really depends on the end user. I know that any .pdf I open within my copy of Firefox or Safari will always open up a separate instance of Acrobat Reader or OSX Preview.app anyway (= new window). It might have something to do with how Acrobat Reader is installed by the

RE: [WSG] wa state guidlines question

2007-05-08 Thread Tamara Jackson
Hi Jermayn When in doubt, look to AGIMO and what they recommend. Mostly, they recommend us looking at W3C, and our obligation there is to fulfil at least the level one priorities. W3C tells us to avoid opening new windows as far as is possible (can't remember which priority level that is!).

Re: [WSG] wa state guidlines question

2007-05-08 Thread Jermayn Parker
Karl and mdagn yes we do have some publications that are currently in html format and going through the state guidlines I found a reference about html and pdf copies as pdf is not accessible (word is), so im think we may just do that even though the five odd publications are 60 plus pages each...

[WSG] IE 7 body length problem

2007-05-08 Thread Christian Montoya
Hello list, On my site, http://christianmontoya.net/ the body does not extend past the content in IE 7 on initial page load, so the background doesn't reach the bottom of the screen. I know there's a simple fix for this, but I can't remember it... can someone help me out? Thanks in advance. --

Re: [WSG] wa state guidlines question

2007-05-08 Thread Tim
Why not let the user decide if they want a new window or not? It is generally a bad idea for accessibility. National Australian standards also cover WA, HREOC standards which follow WCAG Guidelines. http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/#wc-priority-1 Guideline 10. Use interim solutions

Re: [WSG] wa state guidlines question

2007-05-08 Thread Tim
Tamara, I never look to AGIMO except to see what they are mucking up. A review of their Finance and Gov pages These AGIMO pages are a bit ordinary for accessibility. http://www.hereticpress.com/Dogstar/Publishing/AustWeb.html#agmio I never look to AGIMO, except to wonder what low

Re: [WSG] IE 7 body length problem

2007-05-08 Thread Thierry Koblentz
On my site, http://christianmontoya.net/ the body does not extend past the content in IE 7 on initial page load, so the background doesn't reach the bottom of the screen. I know there's a simple fix for this, but I can't remember it... can someone help me out? Thanks in advance. Hi Christian, I

Re: [WSG] IE 7 body length problem

2007-05-08 Thread Jixor - Stephen I
Apply the background to the html element. Not sure if this fits in with standards but it works. Christian Montoya wrote: Hello list, On my site, http://christianmontoya.net/ the body does not extend past the content in IE 7 on initial page load, so the background doesn't reach the bottom of

Re: [WSG] IE 7 body length problem

2007-05-08 Thread Karl Lurman
On 5/9/07, Thierry Koblentz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On my site, http://christianmontoya.net/ the body does not extend past the content in IE 7 on initial page load, so the background doesn't reach the bottom of the screen. I know there's a simple fix for this, but I can't remember it... can

Re: [WSG] wa state guidlines question

2007-05-08 Thread Nick Cowie
Jermayn You might want to consider posting the question to the WA Online Services Interest Group http://www.dpc.wa.gov.au/psmd/osig/osig.html It is a very low traffic mailing list for WA public sector. A number of the people involved in the development of the guidelines are on that list. The

RE: [WSG] wa state guidlines question

2007-05-08 Thread Webb, KerryA
Nick wrote: I would disagree. I believe the pdf and word issue dates back to 1999 or so, when you needed to upgrade to the latest and greatest of JAWS at considerable cost to fully access pdfs. Things have changed in 8 years. Now you can access pdfs with almost any screenreader (that is

Re: [WSG] IE 7 body length problem

2007-05-08 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Thierry Koblentz wrote: I don't see this behavior in ie7 WinXP Pro But I think you should be able to fix what you describe by giving layout to some element in there. Did you try: body {zoom:1} Be very careful about overusing hasLayout. It's not something that should just be gratuitously

Re: [WSG] IE 7 body length problem

2007-05-08 Thread Karl Lurman
The concept of 'Has Layout' is not a hack, its part of IE's rendering model... It happens to be something that is outside of the CSS standard - that doesn't make it a hack. Microsoft developers decided that elements should be able to acquire a property (in an object-oriented programming sense)

RE: [WSG] wa state guidlines question

2007-05-08 Thread Jermayn Parker
and Kerry, how do you make the pdf accessible??? [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9/05/2007 12:50:25 pm Nick wrote: I would disagree. I believe the pdf and word issue dates back to 1999 or so, when you needed to upgrade to the latest and greatest of JAWS at considerable cost to fully access pdfs. Things

Re: [WSG] IE 7 body length problem

2007-05-08 Thread Kane Tapping
Hi , I found my IE7 will show the bug on its first load, but any refresh afterwards will load with the body/colour covering the entire window. (covering the window with another window will also remove the whitespace.) A quick check with the IE7 developer toolbar shows the body stretching only

Re: [WSG] IE 7 body length problem

2007-05-08 Thread Thierry Koblentz
From: Lachlan Hunt Thierry Koblentz wrote: I don't see this behavior in ie7 WinXP Pro But I think you should be able to fix what you describe by giving layout to some element in there. Did you try: body {zoom:1} Be very careful about overusing hasLayout. It's not something that should