[WSG] I am currently away...

2008-09-17 Thread steve
I am currently away from the office until Wednesday the 24th of September and will reply to your email then. All the best, Steve Dangerfield. 0403 895050 *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

[WSG] I am currently away...

2008-09-18 Thread steve
I am currently away from the office until Wednesday the 24th of September and will reply to your email then. All the best, Steve Dangerfield. 0403 895050 *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

[WSG] I am currently away...

2008-09-19 Thread steve
I am currently away from the office until Wednesday the 24th of September and will reply to your email then. All the best, Steve Dangerfield. 0403 895050 *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

[WSG] I am currently away...

2008-09-20 Thread steve
I am currently away from the office until Wednesday the 24th of September and will reply to your email then. All the best, Steve Dangerfield. 0403 895050 *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

[WSG] IE... grrr

2004-06-03 Thread Collins, Steve
-compliance on IE's part, but I'm not clever enough to fix it... Oh, and does anyone know a fix for the non-compliant id's Movable Type puts in? Steve - -- Stephen Collins E [EMAIL PROTECTED] W http://stephencollins.blogdns.org ICQ 1014940 MSN [EMAIL PROTECTED] Y! trib -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

RE: [WSG] IE... grrr

2004-06-03 Thread Collins, Steve
Hi Steve, IE commonly has problems with 100% width. Thisll fix it. Magic! Awesome. Thanks a bunch. Steve -- Stephen Collins E [EMAIL PROTECTED] W http://www.stephencollins.org ICQ 1014940 MSN [EMAIL PROTECTED] Y! trib

RE: [WSG] mcafee site built with css

2004-07-06 Thread Steve Ganz
at the moment. Localized 16 ways. It's certainly just the beginning for standards based web development and design here at McAfee and as I mentioned to Tim in my email to him, we're just getting started. :-) Regards, Steve Ganz McAfee, Inc. -Original Message- From: Iza Bartosiewicz

Re: [WSG] Mac site check please...

2004-09-27 Thread Steve Avery
and October 1, 2004 See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help ** Regards Steve Avery [e]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [w]: www.steveavery.net

Re: [WSG] Up and down arrows using HTML entities

2004-11-07 Thread Steve Winter
Jason, I can't offer any suggestion, but I can advise that on XP SP 2, in both FireFox 0.8 and IE 6.0 uarr; and darr; both render fine, and seem to scale okay too... Cheers Steve -Original Message- From: Jason Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 15:42

Re: [WSG] Site critique please

2004-11-22 Thread Steve Winter
Lyn, It may be worth your taking a look at the site with a reasonably high resolution set...some of the background images don't work so well (IMO) at high resolutions (eg 1280 x 1024) Cheers Steve Hi everyone Would very much appreciate feedback as to any problems or mistakes. Thank you

[WSG] [OT] Javascript Pop up

2004-11-28 Thread Steve Winter
to the document (eg http://myserver.com/mypage.php) as well as it's title... TIA Frustrated Fred (a.k.a Steve) ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting

RE: [WSG] FW: Site review

2005-02-21 Thread Steve Fisher
other than that, the overall user interface works well. steve fisher los angeles, ca Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of James GollanSent: Monday, February 21, 2005 11:57 AMTo: 'Wsg'Subject: [WSG] FW: Site review Would anyone have the ti

Re: [WSG] Dilemma: Useful, additional attributes in elements, invalidating HTML

2005-03-20 Thread Steve Bryant
this extra bit of code. The major drawback is that you have to be certain that this code executes before your script (something you don't have to worry about with method 1). Hope that helps! Steve Bryant. Bryant Web Consulting LLC http://www.BryantWebConsulting.com/ http://steve.coldfusionjournal.com

Re: [WSG] Flash Satay method article

2005-05-10 Thread Steve Bryant
Another nice approach that I have seen is FlashObject: http://blog.deconcept.com/2005/03/31/proper-flash-embedding-flashobject-best-practices/ It uses JavaScript, but it looks like it degrades nicely. Steve Bryant. Bryant Web Consulting LLC http://www.BryantWebConsulting.com/ http

Re: AW: [SPAM?]: Re: [WSG] Firefox Greyscale Extension

2005-08-18 Thread Steve Clason
that lets you view a screen capture as a gray scale image without writing a file. Not as handy as a FF extension would be but much better than using Photoshop. -- Steve Clason Web Design and Development Boulder, Colorado, USA www.topdogstrategy.com (303)818-8590

Re: [WSG] computer arts mag article/review

2005-09-25 Thread Steve Clason
. I use it a lot as well but it's very different from DW except in general layout. It's much better, for instance, for editing CF (or any other) code than DW, not as good (IMO) for editing mark-up. Just my USD0.02. -- Steve Clason Web Design and Development Boulder, Colorado, USA

Re: [WSG] css variables

2005-09-28 Thread Steve Clason
-- Steve Clason Web Design and Development Boulder, Colorado, USA www.topdogstrategy.com (303)818-8590 ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting

Re: [WSG] Site check: color.rdpdesign.com

2005-10-09 Thread Steve Ferguson
I expected the manual inputs to accept hex values since that's typically how we work with colors on the web. Perhaps you could offer the option of using hex or decimal?Steve Ferguson - Illumit L.L.C. http://illumit.comOn Oct 8, 2005, at 6:25 PM, Christian Montoya wrote:Hey all, Thanks

Re: [WSG] site check: liquid.rdpdesign.com

2005-10-10 Thread Steve Ferguson
Nice! I wish I had thought of scaling screenshots to percent width, it looks better and would have saved me a lot of trouble.When I view the site using Safari it briefly renders the unstyled page. I haven't noticed this behavior before. Perhaps it's the @import?Steve Ferguson - http

Re: [WSG] Safari FOUC was site check: liquid.rdpdesign.com

2005-10-11 Thread Steve Ferguson
It does appear that you've killed the Safari FOUC. You should document this as appears to be somewhat of a mystery. Nicely Done! Steve Ferguson - http://illumit.com On Oct 10, 2005, at 11:31 PM, Christian Montoya wrote: Safari FOUC

Re: [WSG] hover div fill query

2005-11-14 Thread Steve Clason
;} a:visited {text-decoration: none;} a:hover {background: #fc3;color: #fff;} /style -- Steve Clason Web Design and Development Boulder, Colorado, USA www.topdogstrategy.com (303)818-8590 ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] OT: Need recomendations for a JavaScript/DOM book

2005-11-22 Thread Steve Clason
they lack full support for setAttribute. Or at least that was my experience--when I played around using Opera it was much more fun. -- Steve Clason Web Design and Development Boulder, Colorado, USA www.topdogstrategy.com (303)818-8590

Re: [WSG] Efficient CSS Practice Methods

2005-11-23 Thread Steve Clason
). -- Steve Clason Web Design and Development Boulder, Colorado, USA www.topdogstrategy.com (303)818-8590 ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list

Re: [WSG] CSS Validators

2005-11-27 Thread Steve Ferguson
What don't you want to use the W3C one? On Nov 23, 2005, at 5:42 PM, Geoff Pack wrote: Does anyone know of a downloadable CSS validator (other than the W3C one) that I can install on an local server to batch check files on my local network? We currently use the WDG html validator, but

Re: [WSG] CSS Validators

2005-11-27 Thread Steve Ferguson
On Nov 27, 2005, at 7:44 PM, Peter Williams wrote: Geoff Pack wrote: ...install on an local server to batch check files on my local network? From: Steve Ferguson What don't you want to use the W3C one? ...files on my local network, if you're working on an intranet you can't use

Re: [WSG] CSS Validators

2005-11-28 Thread Steve Ferguson
validator with WebLight for quite some time. That would give you what you want a crawling css validator. Wish it was done now. I just built the validator, it's kind of a pain. I'll post a binary tommorow. Cheers, Steve Ferguson - Developer WebLight http://illumit.com/weblight cheers, Geoff

Re: [WSG] Browser check Site crit please

2005-11-30 Thread Steve Ferguson
) and one broken link. See http://illumit.com/ reports/donkeymagic.html Hope that helps, Steve Ferguson - WebLight Developer - http://illumit.com/Products/ weblight/ Thanks, Richard Stephenson -- DonkeyMagic: Website design development http://www.donkeymagic.co.uk

Re: [WSG] Mambo Accessibility

2005-12-01 Thread Steve Ferguson
://help.joomla.org/content/view/805/125/ Cheers, Steve Ferguson - http://illumit.com/ Regards, Lloyd ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list

Re: [WSG] editor

2005-12-01 Thread Steve Clason
-highlighting (color coding), it will make your life easier. I like jEdit[2], but I'm sure other people's favorites are just as good. [1] http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=CssEditors [2] http://www.jedit.org/ -- Steve Clason Web Design and Development Boulder, Colorado, USA www.topdogstrategy.com

Re: [WSG] CSS Validators

2005-12-01 Thread Steve Ferguson
are interest running the css-validator locally take a look at http://illumit.com/css-validator/. I'd appreciate your feedback. Sincerely, Steve Ferguson - Illumit http://illumit.com cheers, Geoff ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] Help with CSS ul

2005-12-17 Thread Steve Clason
looks OK in IE and Firefox, although the difference in font size remains. -- Steve Clason Web Design and Development Boulder, Colorado, USA www.topdogstrategy.com (303)818-8590 ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

Re: [WSG] Claiming compliance when a site doesn't' actually comply

2006-01-05 Thread Steve Ferguson
my five cents for the kitty. Steve - WebLight Developer http://illumit.com/weblight ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **

Re: [WSG] All in the Head DTD feedback

2006-01-10 Thread Steve Ferguson
paragraphs, hypertext links, lists, tables, images, etc. Steve Ferguson - Illumit http://illumit.com It removes any confusion for both technical history buffs and newcomers I feel. Let me know if that works for you or not. Regards, -- Karl Dawson Crusader for Web Standards and Accessibility

Re: [WSG] Site Check - ShetlandCoffee.com

2006-01-11 Thread Steve Ferguson
/ShetlandCoffee.html if you are interested. Hope that helps, Steve Ferguson - Illumit http://illumit.com On Jan 11, 2006, at 3:09 PM, David Nicol wrote: Hi everyone, I'd appreciate it very much if you could take a quick look at: http://www.shetlandcoffee.com/ All comments welcome. In particular

Re: [WSG] Web design education

2006-02-15 Thread Steve Olive
but with pressure from staff and students the required applications have been installed because it is the teaching that is important. Keep up the pressure about standards compliance - it is important and will save businesses large sums of money (just ask Target USA). Regards, Steve On 14

Re: [WSG] just sharing the frustration

2006-02-15 Thread Steve Olive
Web Developer These are available for Windows. OS X and Linux versions of Firefox. The Web Developer and HTMLTidy extensions can review web pages and make/suggest the corrections needed for standards compliance. Regards, Steve On 15/02/2006, at 2:59 PM, Zulema wrote: Samuel/Ted/Jay, Wow

Re: [WSG] Overflow and inheritance problems with a 2-column layout

2006-02-17 Thread Steve Olive
I would recommend using the XHTML 1.0 Transitional DTD instead of HTML 4.01 - for the simple reason that there is a bit more tolerance for user-friendly options but you are following the XML standards of lower case tags and attributes, all tags being closed, preferably CSS for positioning but

Re: [WSG] Overflow and inheritance problems with a 2-column layout

2006-02-18 Thread Steve Olive
it's just a matter of trying to keep up the good ideals and getting more designers on board with XHTML served as XHTML HTML. I'm actually surprised how many tutorials I see that use HTML 4.01 in computer magazines in 2006. If we can't convince these people to code to XHTML 1.0 Transitional standards we have real problems.Regards,Steve

Re: [WSG] Font Sizes - Best practice

2006-02-20 Thread Steve Olive
default text - it depends on the target audience. Regards, Steve On 20/02/2006, at 10:57 PM, Patrick Lauke wrote: Lachlan Hunt but lot's of people (mostly designers) who prefer smaller font-sizes. It's unfortunate that so many designers prefer small font sizes. They fail to realise

Re: [WSG] Page veiwing

2006-02-25 Thread Steve Olive
;-) Steve Olive Bathurst Computer Solutions Web: www.bathurstcomputers.com.au _ ... (0) ... / /\ .. / / .) .. V_/_ Linux Powered! ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] Converting the heathen: never again

2006-02-27 Thread Steve Olive
and browsers. ;-) Steve Olive Bathurst Computer Solutions Web: www.bathurstcomputers.com.au _ ... (0) ... / /\ .. / / .) .. V_/_ Linux Powered! ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] Display Issue Squash Request (pvdebeitel.com)

2006-03-02 Thread Steve Olive
and dropping below nav bar from the top blue nav bar when screen resized/font size increased in Firefox 1.5, Opera 8.0.1 Safari 2.0.3 - but mostly in Safari only when applied to extremes. (Tested on Very clean simple site. Steve Olive Bathurst Computer Solutions e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [WSG] testing tips

2006-03-02 Thread Steve Olive
=firefox These are just a few of the developer tools available but make validating HTML/XHTML and CSS quick and easy. The accessibility with TAW3 takes some getting used to ;-) Hope this helps! Steve Olive Bathurst Computer Solutions e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile: 0407 224 251 Web

Re: [WSG] testing tips

2006-03-03 Thread Steve Olive
On 03/03/2006, at 8:09 PM, Felix Miata wrote: On 06/03/03 02:27 Steve Olive apparently typed: Epiphany/Galeon which both use the Firefox rendering engine. There is no Firefox rendering engine. Epiphany, Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox, Galeon, K-Meleon, Mozilla, Netscape 6.x 7.x, SeaMonkey

Re: [WSG] Display Issue Squash Request (pvdebeitel.com)

2006-03-03 Thread Steve Olive
://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help ** Much more consistent across the browsers ;-) Steve Olive Bathurst Computer Solutions e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile

Re: [WSG] Display Issue Squash Request (pvdebeitel.com)

2006-03-03 Thread Steve Olive
On 04/03/2006, at 10:41 AM, Rob Mientjes wrote: On 04/03/06, Steve Olive [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Much more consistent across the browsers ;-) Is that good or bad? Your wink makes me wonder. It does look like font resizing allows for much more change than before, if you mean that. I played

Re: [WSG] Site Check/Launch: Edentiti.com

2006-03-04 Thread Steve Ferguson
=Inlinesp=1verbose=1 If you search for epicorp you can see the mangled href and srcless img. Can anyone explain to me why the validator isn't flagging the in the href? Thanks, Steve Ferguson - WebLight Developer http://www.illumit.com/weblight On Mar 2, 2006, at 7:31 AM, Lachlan Hunt wrote

Re: [WSG] Ads breaking Compliancy

2006-03-05 Thread Steve Olive
visit our AdSense Support site at https://www.google.com/support/adsense . If you're unable to find an answer to your question on our site, please feel free to reply to this email. Sincerely, David The Google AdSense Team == Steve Olive

Re: [WSG] hr/hr tags

2006-03-08 Thread Steve Olive
** The XHTML tags are hr /, the same as other tags like br / that don't have a closing tag. Steve Olive Bathurst Computer Solutions e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile: 0407 224 251 Web: www.bathurstcomputers.com.au _ ... (0

Re: [WSG] Announcing GrayBit v0.5 Beta

2006-03-10 Thread Steve Olive
could detect. Steve Olive Bathurst Computer Solutions e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile: 0407 224 251 Web: www.bathurstcomputers.com.au _ ... (0) ... / /\ .. / / .) .. V_/_ Linux Powered! ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] Certified Usable

2006-03-19 Thread Steve Olive
to the XPEyetrack page. If this is the most useable page from AIMIA members I wouldn't want them designing web pages for me. Steve Olive Bathurst Computer Solutions e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile: 0407 224 251 Web: www.bathurstcomputers.com.au _ ... (0) ... / /\ .. / / .) .. V_/_ Linux

RE: [WSG] Screen reader friendly show/hide dhtml

2007-03-05 Thread Steve Green
would have to explain what it was for, and at that point the user has no way of deciding whether to turn it off or not. The way you implement this could affect other user groups too. Can you be more specific about what you want to do? Steve Green Director Test Partners Ltd / First Accessibility

RE: [WSG] PopUp windows

2007-03-07 Thread Steve Green
will be in a different document format or will open in a new window. So my advice is to avoid non-HTML document types and to avoid opening new windows unless there is genuinely no option. Steve Green Director Test Partners Ltd / First Accessibility www.testpartners.co.uk www.accessibility.co.uk

RE: [WSG] PopUp windows

2007-03-07 Thread Steve Green
This sounds like a perfect application for Ajax. Have the TOC on the left, the actual document on the right... opens as you click through the TOC? Just a thought... Or frames! Only kidding, even though they would be way more accessible than an AJAX 'solution'. Steve

RE: [WSG] PopUp windows

2007-03-07 Thread Steve Green
Not everyone has a user agent that supports multiple windows or in-page popups (e.g. JavaScript or CSS). How would you provide the additional information to these people? Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Faulds Sent: 07 March

RE: [WSG] PopUp windows

2007-03-07 Thread Steve Green
can't make this functionality accessible to certain user agents. Much as we strive to avoid it this does happen, and we should explore all the options on a case by case basis before reaching this conclusion. Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [WSG] PopUp windows

2007-03-07 Thread Steve Green
Last time I looked at various implementations of lightbox none were accessible to the JAWS screen reader. I would be interested to know if things have improved since then. Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Dixon Sent: 07 March

RE: [WSG] handling accessible form

2007-04-21 Thread Steve Green
Your assumption is wrong. Screen readers read the text enclosed by the label element, not their 'for' attribute. I am not aware of any circumstances under which any screen reader reads the 'for' attribute for a label element, so it should be safe to use your colleague's solution. Steve Green

RE: [WSG] wa state guidlines question

2007-05-09 Thread Steve Green
don't consider Word documents to be an accessible alternative either. It's got to be text or HTML, or RTF at a pinch. Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Webb, KerryA Sent: 10 May 2007 00:08 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE

RE: [WSG] Accessible, complex forms

2007-05-14 Thread Steve Green
are fine, but if you really want it to be more accessible, put the form controls at the end of the sentences. Steve www.testpartners.co.uk www.accessibility.co.uk _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Sent: 14 May 2007 21:23 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org

RE: [WSG] Anyone had success using Dragon Naturally Speaking to transcribe audio files?

2007-05-22 Thread Steve Green
am sceptical but have not used it so I can't say for certain. This version may be good enough to do the automatic transcription but I still suspect it won't. Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rebecca Cox Sent: 22 May 2007 11:02

RE: [WSG] dl v table for form layout

2007-05-22 Thread Steve Green
I don't see how using a table is any worse than using a definition list. Both are wrong. Any spurious argument you use to justify a definition list can equally apply to a table. CSS can usually achieve anything you want visually. Steve _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [WSG] dl v table for form layout

2007-05-22 Thread Steve Green
of inappropriate ways. To paraphrase the previous message, a definition list is for lists of definitions, and if you're using it to style your page you need to take a strong look at what you're doing. Steve _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jamie Collins Sent

RE: [WSG] Photo gallery markup semantics

2007-05-22 Thread Steve Green
. And they wonder why they're getting sued! Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick Fitzsimons Sent: 23 May 2007 03:04 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Photo gallery markup semantics On 23 May 2007, at 02:15:30, Patrick H

Re: [WSG] Site Check - Streaming Media

2007-05-23 Thread Steve Olive
. -- Regards, Steve Bathurst Computer Solutions URL: www.bathurstcomputers.com.au e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile: 0407 224 251 _ ... (0) ... / / \ .. / / . ) .. V__/_ Linux Powered! Registered Linux User #355382 * If you read the same things

RE: [WSG] screen readers repeated legends (was dl v table for form layout)

2007-05-25 Thread Steve Green
customisation. I understand that Freedom Scientific are working on a means of making the customisation portable, which will at least partially resolve that problem. Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick Fitzsimons Sent: 25 May 2007 14:01

RE: [WSG] screen readers repeated legends (was dl v table for form layout)

2007-05-25 Thread Steve Green
. Hands up anyone who has done any user testing this year. Or ever. Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stuart Foulstone Sent: 25 May 2007 22:53 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] screen readers repeated legends (was dl v

RE: [WSG] semantic HTML for intro text

2007-05-26 Thread Steve Green
levels as low as 4x, given that magnifier users also tend to use 800x600 resolution. Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick Fitzsimons Sent: 26 May 2007 18:53 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] semantic HTML for intro

Re: [WSG] Converting font size from pt to % or em

2007-05-28 Thread Steve Olive
text at 18 pt Times New Roman - any larger and he could not see all of the individual letters, any smaller and it got too hard to read. Just my $0.02 worth - the most important point is that we are aware of the issues, even if we can't agree on the perfect solution. -- Regards, Steve Bathurst

RE: [WSG] The use of asterisks in forms to indicate required fields

2007-05-28 Thread Steve Green
the legend when it reads each label in the fieldset. It only does this in 'forms mode' 2. Not all screen readers have a separate mode for interacting with forms. FireVox is one such product. Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike

Re: [WSG] Content Management issue ?

2007-05-29 Thread Steve Olive
with the client and try each one out. -- Regards, Steve Bathurst Computer Solutions URL: www.bathurstcomputers.com.au e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile: 0407 224 251 _ ... (0) ... / / \ .. / / . ) .. V__/_ Linux Powered! Registered Linux User #355382 * If you

Re: [WSG] Suggestions Please for: CMS / E-commerce Solutions

2007-05-29 Thread Steve Olive
On Tue, 29 May 2007 06:20:05 am Mark Hedley wrote: Hi everyone. I am currently looking for a cost-effective (preferably opensource) solution to run our companies UK based web site. Have you looked at the e-Commerce section at http://www.opensourcecms.com? -- Regards, Steve Bathurst

RE: [WSG] Web Accessibility Update from Shawn Henry, London, Tuesday 5 June

2007-05-29 Thread Steve Green
I'll be there. Anyone else? Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Swan, Henny Sent: 29 May 2007 17:19 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Web Accessibility Update from Shawn Henry, London, Tuesday 5 June Hi All, Shawn Henry

RE: [WSG] Re: Use of Fieldsets other than in form?

2007-06-04 Thread Steve Green
say don't even think about it. Day after day in this forum some people seem to be hell-bent on abusing the standards like this? Why? It's not big, it's not clever and it's not necessary. Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lucien Stals

RE: [WSG] Re: Use of Fieldsets other than in form?

2007-06-05 Thread Steve Green
coding decisions. Mark up your content in a manner that is unambiguous to other users, and don't adopt a bizarre interpretation of the standards that no one other than a handful of 'imaginative' coders will understand. Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [WSG] Re: Use of Fieldsets other than in form?

2007-06-05 Thread Steve Green
can only move between links and form controls so the legends won't be read unless there actually is a form control in a fieldset. The bottom line is that there will be no adverse behaviour but all the benefits of using headers (e.g. navigation and indication of structure) will be lost. Steve

RE: [WSG] What does Semantic mean?

2007-06-05 Thread Steve Green
could argue that JAWS should handle definition lists better, and I would agree. I still say that the use of the fieldset it entirely wrong and that apart from the visual effect it provides no semantic value to any user agent. Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

[WSG] JAWS Screen Reader Demo - Monday 25 June 2007

2007-06-08 Thread Steve Green
want to come early. We are scheduled to finish at 5:30pm but you are welcome to stay afterwards to get some hands-on experience or look at some more websites. If anyone would like to attend this demo or a future one please fill in the form at http://www.accessibility.co.uk/free_jaws_demo.htm. Steve

RE: Accessible auto-submit dropdowns [WAS: Re: [WSG] WCAG Samurai Errata]

2007-06-09 Thread Steve Green
or not. However, I suspect that most people will not know that you can do this even if they routinely use keyboard navigation. Steve _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sander Aarts Sent: 09 June 2007 05:30 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Accessible

RE: [WSG] WCAG Samurai Errata

2007-06-11 Thread Steve Green
is a bit shambolic, and it is not clear that comments are particularly welcome. There is no stated process, so people have been commenting in various places in the blogs of the two peer reviewers so they are very fragmented. Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto

RE: [WSG] Screen Reader Accessible Navigation Suggestions

2007-06-13 Thread Steve Green
to provide headings to indicate the primary, secondary and tertiary menus then you can hide them off screen. They are not essential but they can help the user build a mental model of the page and they provide landmarks that aid navigation. Steve _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [WSG] Screen Reader Accessible Navigation Suggestions

2007-06-13 Thread Steve Green
level pages are just linked from within the body of second level pages. We have done the same at www.testpartners.co.uk, which has about 60 pages but don't look at the coding - it's more than 4 years old and in desperate need of a rewrite. Steve _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto

Re: [WSG] To target or not

2007-07-20 Thread Steve Olive
easily be used to continue surfing the Internet. IMHO this should become a web convention in the way the Internet has been commercialised. All online transactions should be conducted in their own window that is killed once the transaction is complete. -- Regards, Steve Bathurst Computer

Re: [WSG] Using target=_blank

2007-07-25 Thread Steve Olive
The argument must be why you are using the XHTML Strict DTD, not about one small component of XHTML Strict. What is interesting though is that HTML 5 is keeping the target attribute: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#valid8 -- Regards, Steve

Re: [WSG] setting fontsize in body

2007-08-08 Thread Steve Olive
is diminishing, or the default appearance is hard to see, do yourself a favour - get yours eyes checked. You will be amazed at the lack of eye strain and headaches after getting glasses - even using your new found skills customising the monitor appearance. -- Regards, Steve Bathurst Computer

RE: [WSG] Usability Accessibility Over Design?

2007-08-14 Thread Steve Green
making compromises. I so wish it was otherwise because this is a battle I don't want to have. Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joseph Taylor Sent: 14 August 2007 15:33 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Usability

RE: [WSG] Usability Accessibility Over Design?

2007-08-14 Thread Steve Green
cannot be changed. sIFR is still too flaky (at least all the examples I have seen are). Steve _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Palac Sent: 14 August 2007 23:02 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Usability Accessibility Over Design

RE: [WSG] Usability Accessibility Over Design?

2007-08-15 Thread Steve Green
nothing to lose. Is it any wonder they are sceptical? Steve From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Palinkas Sent: 15 August 2007 12:14 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] Usability Accessibility Over Design? Hi, IMHO I

RE: [WSG] Usability Accessibility Over Design?

2007-08-15 Thread Steve Green
of accessible, standards-compliant design to show our clients what is possible. Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Designer Sent: 15 August 2007 13:20 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Usability Accessibility Over

RE: [WSG] Usability Accessibility Over Design?

2007-08-15 Thread Steve Green
good for their respective purposes, but they still fall short of the 'stunning visuals' that both Accessites and our customer are looking for. There's no escaping the fact that you can create very engaging forms of interaction with Flash that you just can't achieve with W3C technologies. Steve

RE: [WSG] IE help

2007-08-23 Thread Steve Green
if I select Yes when prompted to continue. If I select No, I get a message An unexpected error occurred..., which is actually to be expected. I don't have any 'funny settings', AV, firewall software or anything like that, and suspect your presumption is correct. Steve -Original Message

RE: [WSG] Accessible Adobe Photoshop and flash With Jaws

2007-09-27 Thread Steve Green
using one). Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Crockford Sent: 27 September 2007 09:58 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Accessible Adobe Photoshop and flash With Jaws On 27 Sep 2007, at 09:48, James Jeffery wrote

Re: [WSG] Accessible Adobe Photoshop and flash With Jaws

2007-09-27 Thread Steve Olive
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:49:50 pm Steve Green wrote: One of our trainers tells me that only 4% of blind people have no sight at all. Some may not be able to see a few feet in front of them and need a guide dog to walk up the street, yet they can see a screen close-up and may not even need

RE: [WSG] Levels of 508 compliance

2007-10-03 Thread Steve Green
as to whether they are met or not. Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Livingston Sent: 03 October 2007 18:03 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Levels of 508 compliance Hi listers, Does anyone have a reference (link) to a site

RE: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread Steve Green
discrimination to a far higher degree than we do now. Is there something special about websites that you think should exempt them from the laws that bind everything else? Or do you think that your right to 'do what the hell you like' outweighs other people's right to be treated equally? Steve

RE: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread Steve Green
of such wilful or ignorant behaviour I believe it is necessary to legislate. Sure it's inconvenient to have to worry about people with disabilities and incur additional costs to support them, but it's a mark of a civilised country that we do. At least where I live. Steve _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread Steve Green
care ever so much. They are not claiming the right to 'do whatever the hell they want' - they are trying to kid people that this is as good as it gets and that it can't be any better. And that is just so far from the truth. Steve _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread Steve Green
of benefits but we need to be able to quantify this before we can make sweeping statements that it doesn't cost any more. Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Chamberlain Sent: 04 October 2007 00:18 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org

RE: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread Steve Green
to the website, and you don't need to know anything about accessibility to make that judgement. Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Genesis One And One Sent: 04 October 2007 02:23 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: A: [WSG] Target

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread Steve Olive
emissions from cars? Yes. Can a car manufacturer ignore this legislation because it costs more? No. Anti-discrimination legislation is the same, it is about protecting sections of our community from being excluded because it costs more. -- Regards, Steve Bathurst Computer Solutions

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