RE: [WSG] IE7 isn't going to CSS2

2005-03-23 Thread Rebecca Cox
Again, apologies if this has been posted previously, but there is a somewhat kinder view of this on Eric Meyer's blog @ http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2005/03/21/exploring-better-standards- support/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

[WSG] !important via script possible?

2005-03-29 Thread Rebecca Cox
I'm pretty sure this isn't possible, but does anyone know if its possible to add the !important declaration to a style set with script, as in: document.getElementById(mydiv).style.height = hvar + px !important; Its fine in Gecko but not IE6... Any ideas?

RE: [WSG] !important via script possible?

2005-03-30 Thread Rebecca Cox
on the same block. %%#$##$!!! Cheers :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rebecca Cox Sent: Wednesday, 30 March 2005 11:35 a.m. To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] !important via script possible? I'm pretty sure this isn't possible

[WSG] CSS Zen Garden piss take, anyone got link?

2005-04-17 Thread Rebecca Cox
Hi all, Don't know if anyone remembers seeing a sort of rip off of CSS Zen Garden a while back? Someone did a manky looking old school design, not on the main site. I'm after the URL if anyone has it. Cheers :) ** The discussion list for

RE: [WSG] Print Style Fails

2005-04-18 Thread Rebecca Cox
Dunno if you already fixed this but I would try: Change media for print.css to screen see if its still no show. Try not using @import for it? Or possibly, ref the @import css files from root - eg /c/print.css, not c/print.css Cheers :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[WSG] Hide CSS from Netscape 6?

2005-04-18 Thread Rebecca Cox
Anyone ever found a way to do this? (besides with scripting that is) Cheers :) ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting

RE: [WSG] Please review http://www.mad4f1.com

2005-04-22 Thread Rebecca Cox
Looks pretty good to me - I have that problem sometimes as well with footers in IE. Have not looked at your CSS, so no idea if this would have anything to do with it on your site. But sometimes, I think when you use position: absolute; bottom 0; to place your footer, if there's (for example)

[WSG] SXSW session on accessible flash on fawnyblog

2005-03-14 Thread Rebecca Cox
http://blog.fawny.org/2005/03/13/sxsw2005-13d/ Transcript, commentary on first 30 mins or so of chat on accessible flash.. Wish I could've gone to SXSW! ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

RE: [WSG] Displaying hidden content when JavaScript disabled

2005-05-12 Thread Rebecca Cox
Hi, I posted on a similar question to wai-ig (but about how this kind of DHTML is with a screen reader) and got a lot of interesting replys. The thread is at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2005AprJun/0203.html if you are interested. I haven't had time to check it all out properly

[WSG] Unicode in Visual Studio? For xhtml, css ?

2005-07-20 Thread Rebecca Cox
Hi all, I use Visual Studio to author both HTML and CSS and am not sure what is the best encoding option to choose. For HTML it needs to be Unicode/utf-8 but there are 4 different Unicode encodings to choose from! Does anyone use VS and know what a good default option would be?

RE: [WSG] Fix for min-max in IE

2005-08-29 Thread Rebecca Cox
Nasty Ive had this happen too;o. I think we picked one as it was OK to do either min or max width but not both. Maybe try giving IE the max-width with your script and then getting a fake min-width in there with something thats the min width you want?? (like a spacer gif in an old

RE: [WSG] css variables

2005-09-28 Thread Rebecca Cox
Hi Ted, You're not thinking of these? http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2005/08/31/the-constants-gardener/ Cheers -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Drake, Ted C. Sent: Thursday, 29 September 2005 8:33 a.m. To:

RE: [WSG] css variables

2005-09-28 Thread Rebecca Cox
Ted, You're not thinking of these? http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2005/08/31/the-constants-gardener/ Cheers -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Drake, Ted C. Sent: Thursday, 29 September 2005 8:33 a.m. To: 'wsg@webstandardsgroup.org'

RE: [WSG] Radio New Zealand site relaunch

2005-10-25 Thread Rebecca Cox
It wouldn't be anything to do with support requirements for the audio content on the site? Eg a decision not to worry about Mac support in general, not just for layout? I just did a quick check - on Safari I got the visual layout but when trying to get to an audio clip, the browser just

[WSG] display: table-cell etc for IE?

2005-10-27 Thread Rebecca Cox
Does anyone know if / when the table-mode display properties (eg display: table-row in CSS2.1) are going to be supported in IE? IE7 perhaps, or is this a bit too hopeful? Cheers ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/

RE: [WSG] Accessibility: Default placeholders

2005-11-14 Thread Rebecca Cox
Could be useful depending on the context. For example, if you wanted to show that a field was editable content (within the whole application), but not on the particular screen you are on right now (especially if the user knew that by clicking on edit or some other option they would be able to

[WSG] RNZFB new website - plus article in Macguide

2005-11-27 Thread Rebecca Cox
The latest NZ Macguide magazine has a good interview on Macs and accessibility at Royal NZ Foundation for the Blind, and also some info on their new website (which uses Plone CMS) at http://www.rnzfb.org.nz/ Both well worth a look. Cheers Rebecca

RE: [WSG] positive-discrimination === not positive and IMG properties

2005-12-14 Thread Rebecca Cox
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Curtis Sent: Thursday, 15 December 2005 7:55 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] positive-discrimination === not positive and IMG properties so I wrote an htc called Alt Destroyer that

[WSG] Screen reader friendly show/hide dhtml

2007-03-05 Thread Rebecca Cox
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[WSG] Anyone had success using Dragon Naturally Speaking to transcribe audio files?

2007-05-22 Thread Rebecca Cox
Hi there, I'm having a go at using Dragon Naturally Speaking (http://www.nuance.com/naturallyspeaking/preferred/) to automatically transcribe audio files (mp3 and wav). It's pretty patchy so far, and I wondered if anyone has had much success with this? Cheers :) Rebecca

[WSG] Title attribute and screen readers

2007-10-24 Thread Rebecca Cox
Hi all, I'm looking for up to date info on title attribute behaviour screen readers, especially where used on site global navigation. As an example, http://www.e.govt.nz uses fairly long title attributes for the main navigation links, and this repeats throughout the site (i.e., not just on the

Re: [WSG] Title attribute and screen readers

2007-10-25 Thread Rebecca Cox
Thanks everyone for your replys. Cheers :) Rebecca On 10/25/07, Steve Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use keyboard controls a lot too, and generally regard the use of tabindex as a sign that a site was not designed properly in the first place. It causes a number of problems such as being

[WSG] Software to read aloud web pages (targetted at literacy issues not vision issues)

2008-04-03 Thread Rebecca Cox
Hi all, Someone's asked me about software that will read aloud from a web page, in a user friendly way, to be used by secondary students whose reading age is low prevents them being able to access the content. I've found a few examples - anyone have experience using any of these, or other

Re: [WSG] Possible to embed Flash w/out keyboard trap problems?

2009-05-13 Thread Rebecca Cox
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis bhawkesle...@googlemail.com wrote: On 13/5/09 04:32, Rebecca Cox wrote: I'm wondering if its possible to embed Flash into HTML, using only HTML (no javascript) and for this to be keyboard accessible (HTML and Flash content usable