Cool Mike, i'm Bobby OKAY ! :) Nice machine tho .. I wish I had an 533 Alpha just for the hell of having .. an Alpha :) How much is something like that worth ? Do Alphas come with three or two button mice ? Do they use a ball or semi optical mechanism (little mousepad dots). Regards, Matt >From: Michael Lake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [SLUG] Accessability, Was: Silly Newbie Hack :) >Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 17:30:27 +1000 > >Matt wrote: > > Okay .. here's my silly way of creating a fortune powered webpage (here >i'm > > using Optushome - no perl/php/asp/.bat there :). >..... > > Done ! You can see how it turns out at : > > http://members.optushome.com.au/kozer/ > >Ok I'm bored so I ran your page past Bobby. Bobby checks and >rates web pages for accessability. > >"Bobby is a web-based tool that analyzes web pages for their >accessibility to people with disabilities. CAST offers Bobby >as a free public service in order to further its mission to >expand opportunities for people with disabilities through >the innovative uses of computer technology. >To analyze your web site, type in the URL of the page that >you want Bobby to examine and click Submit. Bobby will >display a report indicating any accessibility and/or browser >compatibility errors found on the page. Once your site >receives a Bobby Approved rating, you are entitled to >display a Bobby Approved icon on your site. " > >And the results? >"Congratulations! This web page contains no accessibility >errors that Bobby can detect. >You are entitled to display a Bobby Approved icon on your >site." > >Actually the above is quite important and I just happened to >use Bobby today to check out the web pages of the Royal >Society of NSW that I wrote and maintain >http://www.science.uts.edu.au/rsnsw/ (an ultra conservative >site but written with vi on Linux - see About). I was quite >impressed by the results and how Bobby displayed that >information. Run RSNSW pages through and you'll see what >comes out. There are some minor things that I need to fix >up. Other sites which are more complex naturally won't >satisfy Bobby and thats a compromise that sometimes must be >made. Its worth spending some time to run pages through >accessability checkers to make life much easier for many >people and its an area where folks like us who can control >the HTML code we make can do this more easily than those who >are constrained by GUI editors. > >Mike > >-- >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >Michael Lake >University of Technology, Sydney >Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02 >9514 1628 >URL: http://www.science.uts.edu.au/~michael-lake/ >Linux enthusiast, active caver and interested in anything >technical. >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >-- >SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au >To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with >unsubscribe in the text ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the text
