RE: [WSG] accessibility feedback

[Ted Drake]

Great comments Mordechai   It's easy to miss some of these elements, such as title tags.  I like using the web development bar by Chris Pederick http://www.chrispederick.com/work/firefox/webdeveloper/ in Mozilla.  I use the outline links without titles, images without alt, titles, etc functions.  Unfortunately, for your web site, the outline colors the web developing bar uses get lost in your site colors. So, I also used the tool bar to disable your page colors and could easily see the title tags that Mordechai mentions.  It will also give you the links to wai validations. Does that sound like too much of a commercial? One of these days, I'll meet Chris and he will say, you must be the guy that keeps sending people to my web site and crashing my server...   Ted   -----Original Message----- From: Mordechai Peller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 9:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] accessibility feedback Andreas Boehmer wrote: Hi guys, I was wondering whether you could give me some feedback on a website we have created: http://www.jet.org.au. We have tried to make it as accessible as possible, but better than any Bobby or W3C validation is probably going through your critique. We are still working on improving it, but please feel free to be tough critics! Tough critics? OK, here goes... Same problem with logo as others mentioned, but at least it has alt text. No link to skip to the main contents. Links are missing title tag. Links in left column are indistinguishable from rest of text. (The same could be said about the nav bar, but the context make it obvious.) In the upper right, the links and the background fail the W3C's Color Difference Formula. (Brightness is OK, though.) There are problem when text is scaled. While the text is scalable in IE (which is very good), doing so in either IE or Firefox causes major problems. IE6 Firefox Upper right form All but a thin sliver of login button is covered by nav bar. Same thing happens to button. Links require horz. scrolling to be seen. Left column Location and Industry selects cover portion of main text. Keywords ducks under contents area. Location and Industry loose their down arrow. In all three drop downs, the text extends past bottom edge of box. Keywords has same problem as IE. Some of letters get chopped off. Navigation bar Links on right are pushed together. Height of bar doesn't change to fit letters. "Traineeships" starts to get cut off while letters are still small.