On 19 Mar 2007, at 14:42:38, Bob Schwartz wrote:
The test site at
http://www.fotografics.it/fife/
has been refurbished to make it more standards compliant,
before moving on to the accessibility "layer" I would appreciate it
if you guys could check it out for any errors or "wrong practices"
One thing I notice is that the links in the navigation have title
attributes which, when they appear as a tooltip, obscure the contents
of the submenus and of the menu items further down the page (I've
looked in Safari and Firefox, BTW).
Of course, when you move off the link the tooltip vanishes, but it
reminded me of something that one of the speakers (I believe it was
Anne McMeekin of the Royal National Institute for the Blind)
mentioned at the WSG London Accessibility meetup a couple of weeks
ago: a partially-sighted user might well have a screen magnification
of as much as 32 times normal (or more), and the appearance of a big
yellow tooltip box obscuring the actual content is usually a major
hindrance to them.
In this case, such a user might not even notice that a submenu (which
could be partially off the right of their screen) had appeared, nor
would they be able to scan down the main menu until the tooltip
finally disappeared.
As no screenreaders read title attributes by default (and no
screenreader user ever changes the default setting, apparently) you
aren't really deriving any benefit (at least in accessibility terms)
from the title attributes, so they might as well go.
Generally though I think it looks extremely good :-)
Cheers,
Nick.
(Apologies if I've misrepresented what was said at the WSG meetup,
but I believe I've remembered it correctly :-)
--
Nick Fitzsimons
http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/
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