Re: [WSG] long description and its implementation

A further query on the longdesc attribute. Is there any reason why I couldn¹t use it on a Flash animation? It¹d be a great solution for a current problem where I¹m trying to update an oldish website to be more accessible. I¹ve got a Flash animation that¹s a list of (6) headings, each with 3 option

Re: [WSG] long description and its implementation

Ah well, for a minute there I got quite excited!! Should have realised I'd already know about this if it was a real possibility!! Thanks for all the info ... :) - susie On 4/2/08 12:23 PM, "Patrick H. Lauke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Susie Gardner-Brown wrote: &

Re: [WSG] Unobtrusive JavaScript (was: generate data)

Hi Chris Thought I'd let you know - I looked at your web page and the first two examples, when I clicked on the link, didn't work for me at all! No extra paragraph appearing (or disappearing!) and no time change. I'm on a Mac using Firefox 2.0.0.12 ... It sounds good - I'd like to access a versio

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

It'd also be interesting to know if it reads aloud in an American accent!! Or perhaps the better question would be, if there is ANY software like this that doesn't use an American accent ... Cheers susie On 4/4/08 10:00 AM, "Rebecca Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Someone's aske

Re: [WSG] PNG file sizes

Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought that in the 'save for web' option you could only save as gif or jpeg. Am I wrong? I'd love it if I could use it to compress png files - just needed to yesterday!! ... :) - susie On 17/4/08 1:40 AM, "Nick Fitzsimons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, April 16,

Re: [WSG] PNG file sizes

are > still rather huge!! My version is CS3. > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Susie Gardner-Brown > Sent: Thursday, 17 April 2008 11:35 a.m. > To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org > Subject: Re: [WSG] PNG file siz

Re: [WSG] Image links

I can never remember which way round these are supposed to go! Can someone explain (again!) the rules here? Thanks susie On 2/5/08 3:11 PM, "Adam Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it should be: > > a img { > > } > > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Mahendran Venkatesan > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [WSG] Full flash websites

I do think we also shouldn¹t forget that there are a lot of people out there who need to find a webpage attractive in order to make them stay and read the content. And some Flash(y) content can be useful/attractive. (Emphasis on Œcan¹!) Some people (probably a lot) really like that sort of stuff ..

Re: [WSG] Full flash websites

On 7/5/08 1:37 PM, "Sam Sherlock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Using some unobstrusive js effects much the same (and or better) can be made > without flash > > http://simonwillison.net/static/2008/xtech/ > > which advises making a standard site that functions with basic html and > present it

[WSG] IE6 background image positioning problem

Hi there I'm sure I should know how to fix this but I can't! http://crunchie.tedi.uq.edu.au/trials/UCTLC/index6.html http://crunchie.tedi.uq.edu.au/trials/UCTLC/uctlc6.css That big image on the right is a bg image in a container that has absolute positioning. It works fine in Firefox on my Mac,

Re: [WSG] IE6 background image positioning problem

! At least I've fixed up the lefthand nav so it holds together, and displays correctly in IE6 (which is as low as we have to go here). cheers susie On 15/5/08 6:13 PM, "Gunlaug Sørtun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Susie Gardner-Brown wrote: > >> http://

[WSG] Accessibility and Joomla

I¹m just starting to (try to!) learn Joomla as I¹m going to have to use it on a few upcoming sites. Having looked at the html output as I work through some of the tutorials, I¹m wondering how accessible sites created in Joomla are, and if anyone has any experience/knowledge of good sites to help in

Re: [WSG] Accessibility and Joomla

hour training video. And it's all about the Joomla 'template' which is where all the formatting/CSS is organised. My work will hopefully buy this for me (grin) We shall see ... :) On 23/5/08 12:19 PM, "dwain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/22/08, Susie

Re: [WSG] Alt versus Title Attribute

Those guys at berea street are good!! I always find useful stuff on that site ... :) - susie On 28/5/08 6:49 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Can anyone give me a clear example/explanation of the difference >> between the alt attribute and the title attribute? How about

[WSG] Help setting current menu state on level2 menus

Hi there I've been using the 456bereastreet.com method ( http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200503/setting_the_current_menu_state_ with_css/) to set the current menu state using css. Which is really great when there is only one level of menu items ... But I'm now trying to use it with 2 levels

Re: [WSG] Help setting current menu state on level2 menus

unlaug Sørtun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Susie Gardner-Brown wrote: > >> But when the link has sub-menu items under it, all of those get the >> same treatment! Because the styles are applied to the list item. Can >> anyone think of a way to do this that would

Re: [WSG] Help setting current menu state on level2 menus

[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >> Behalf Of Susie Gardner-Brown >> Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 6:45 PM >> To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org >> Subject: [WSG] Help setting current menu state on level2 menus >> >> Hi there >> >> I've

Re: [WSG] Marking Up Poems

I look after a poetry ezine site ( http://www.foame.org/) and that¹s what I do. For a lot of poets, the look of their poem on the page is very important. Sometimes they want to make visual patterns with their stanzas ... always a bit hit and miss, depending on browsers/platforms etc. And then y

Re: [WSG] Please unsubscribe me

Ha ha ­ and yes!! On 1/7/08 2:59 PM, "Matthew Holloway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Polly Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Many thanks >> Polly Templeton >> National Museum of Australia > > > I don't know about you all but I'm maintaining a spreadsheet

Re: [WSG] Image gallery layout

I LOVE Lightbox! Only discovered it recently and am using it on a site I¹m working on. From an accessibility standpoint it is awesome. The only Œcomplaint¹ that another developer here found was that it doesn¹t detect the user¹s flash player version (as swfObject does), but that¹s a minor concern re

[WSG] Facebook downgrading support for IE6

I came upon this - http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2008/08/27/facebook-doesnt-really-support-ie6 If Facebook (or the Œnew¹ Facebook look) is doing this, maybe it will really start to move IE6 out the door ... One can only hope anyway!! +++ Susie Gardner-Brown blog: http://susiegb/blogspot.com

Re: [WSG] Learning JavaScript properly

I've been using 'Javascript: A Beginner's Guide' (2nd Edition) by John Pollock and have found that pretty useful. - susie On 19/09/08 11:34 AM, "William Donovan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I can vouch for Simply JavaScript by Sitepoint as well. I used it in > combination with some of their

Re: [WSG] WCAG2 in govt

I don¹t work in government as such, rather a big university. We (my group within the Uni, which is one that supports teaching and learning, makes websites etc) are going with WCAG2 ­ well, the first two levels anyway. We¹ve been developing a wiki with suggestions for different groups of users with

Re: [WSG] First Attempt

Seconded ... (or 10th, whatever!) You (one) really have to be able to handcode. I use Dreamweaver but I always have it open in both views, never just the design view, and I frequently swap into the code view only and work on it that way. It¹s the only way to see what¹s going on, and fix up things

Re: [WSG] Accessible popup help

Here¹s a couple (well, 3) links to creating accessible popups to check out: http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/popups/demo2.html The ever-popular Lightbox - http://www.lokeshdhakar.com/projects/lightbox2/ And from Accessify - http://accessify.com/features/tutorials/the-perfect-popup/ Cheers susi

Re: [WSG] 3 column layout issue

Have a look at this: http://webhost.bridgew.edu/etribou/layouts/skidoo/ This is a 3-column layout with care taken for lots of different browsers ... Cheers susie > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Naveen Bhaskar > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a 3 column layout structure. My issue is the co

Re: [WSG] more on fonts

Don't see how it could be any clearer Paul ... :) On 23/06/09 8:39 AM, "Paul Novitski" wrote: > At 6/22/2009 05:00 AM, Marvin Hunkin wrote: >> hi. >> well, the subject that i was taking, and the web page for pinciples of >> visual design, my professor, said i have to had fonts, in the style sh

[WSG] The 'Some Links for Light Reading' posts

Hi there I¹d just like to send a big thank you to Russ Weakley for taking the time to collate and send this to WSG Announce each week! I always find really interesting stuff there, and usually bookmark a couple of links from it. So, thanks Russ ­ it¹s really appreciated! Cheers susie *

[WSG] Trip down memory lane

Geocities is closing down! So xkcd did a commemorative Œreprise¹ of their site ... http://xkcd.com/499/ :) *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscr

Re: [WSG] fonts

Hi Marvin You're not stating the fonts for you, but for the people who read your website. That's why you usually declare 2-3 fonts, so if they don't have the first one on their computer, it will go to the second. So you don't need to download anything. And they (your audience) shouldn't need to ei

[WSG] Poetry needing block format but with line-breaks

it in as a pdf image unfortunately (with a link to a page with the poetry in regular html but formatted as required) ... Cheers susie gardner-brown *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe

Re: [WSG] RE: Poetry needing block format but with line-breaks

Oh, thanks Jens ­ I forgot about that option!! I¹ll give it a go . And Brad ­ yes I am using the tag, but that stops it being block-formatted ... Cheers susie On 17/02/10 8:40 AM, "Jens-Uwe Korff" wrote: >> > I¹m doing a poetry Œzine. Quite a lot of poets want to set the way the poem >> look

[WSG] WANAU - anyone heard of them?

Web Accessibility Network for Australian Universities ... http://www.wanau.org/site.html They are proposing running their annual forum on Accessibility in online teaching at UQ where I work, and we¹ve been asked to help ... :) I expect I will be involved anyway, but would be interested in any fe

Re: [WSG] WANAU - anyone heard of them?

Thanks everyone for your responses! I'd never heard of them before - they obviously haven't had a presence at UQ to date. Looks like I (and my department) will be getting involved, which is great! Cheers susie On 11/4/07 11:54 AM, "Ben Buchanan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Susie, > >> We

[WSG] Help needed

Hi there I¹ve got a problem with a page I¹m having to do in a hurry! Site has to go live and be demo¹d at a launch on Monday ... I only got the content, graphic layout etc. a couple of days ago. (And it¹s an official university sub-site so I¹m forced to use some of their code (tables?!!) and style

Re: [WSG] Help needed

On 11/5/07 12:30 PM, "John Faulds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 1. In the lefthand nav I would have liked to have some of the 2nd level >> Œlink¹s not links. But my code is up the creek and I can¹t make them >> line up >> or be the same font size unless they¹re all links. Any clues on what I

Re: [WSG] Help needed

a > comment that's not opened. > > On Fri, 11 May 2007 13:00:49 +1000, Susie Gardner-Brown > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> >> On 11/5/07 12:30 PM, "John Faulds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >>> >&g

[WSG] IE6 problem

Hi again Still on the same website ... Apparently on a couple of pages in IE6, the main content isn¹t starting till after the end of the leftnav div ­ ie. Further down the page. It is fine in IE7 and Firefox. And fine on Firefox and Safari on the Mac. The pages concerned have either got a form, o

Re: [WSG] IE6 problem

t; textarea should be in a tag instead. > > On Mon, 14 May 2007 10:27:46 +1000, Susie Gardner-Brown > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi again >> >> Still on the same website ... >> >> Apparently on a couple of pages in IE6, the main content i

Re: [WSG] IE6 problem

OK, I've sorted out the textarea problem! Now it's just the links on the calendar page that aren't clickable ... ?! - susie On 14/5/07 12:04 PM, "Susie Gardner-Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks again John. I had to rely on someone else to tell me ab

Re: [WSG] IE6 problem

the calendar is clickable for me in both firefox and inferior explorer > > of course - someone may propose a more appropriate solution. > > - S > > On 14/05/07, Susie Gardner-Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Thanks again John. I had to rely on someone else to te

Re: [WSG] IE6 problem

://www.tedi.uq.edu.au/CDIP/calendar/January.html - susie On 14/5/07 12:58 PM, "Sam Sherlock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > works fine in ff, opera & ie on windows 2000 > > I click the beige links and get pdf's > > - S > > On 14/05/07, Susie Gardner-Brown

Re: [WSG] IE6 problem

IL PROTECTED] >> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> wrote: >> >>> > works fine in ff, opera & ie on windows 2000 >>> > >>> > I click the beige links and get pdf's >>> > >>> > - S >>&

Re: [WSG] IE6 problem - more general

Hi there Kepler Thank you! I believe it¹s OK now. I would really like to ask you how you know all this ­ how you keep it in your head?!! Do you have pages and pages of stuff like this written down, or what?!!! For example: about making nav buttons clickable in IE7: why does the container div nee

Re: [WSG] IE6 problem - more general

earer of bad news but its still not clickable in IE6 > > - S > > On 15/05/07, Susie Gardner-Brown < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Hi there Kepler >> >> Thank you! >> I believe it's OK now. >> >> I would

Re: [WSG] Site check Please - new thread

I'm looking on a Mac in Firefox. It all seems to hold together fine. My comments are more on the design/layout side. The 'banner' area - to my mind it takes up way too much real estate. It's pretty much half the screen. And there's too much white space on the right side too I think. Another thing

Re: [WSG] Mocking up web interfaces

Photoshop ... :) I do use Fireworks sometimes, but know Photoshop better. - susie On 24/5/07 9:22 AM, "Douglas Reith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > Just a quick one - what do people most commonly mock up web site designs in? > (Photoshop?) > Also, if possible, Linux and GPL or simil