>Not every anchor needs extra advisory information, so I don't see an >issue here.
The title attribute is optional, but a title can help to clearly and accurately describe a link and for a website thats based around accessibility he should be using the title attribute where needed. He has an abbreviation in his link: 'FAQ' which should be wrapped in <abbr></abbr> and he should use the title attribute here to add more clarity. Just because we can understand it perfectly dont assume everyone can. >Why not? Who says he *should* use HTML? Sounds a bit blindly dogmatic to >me here... XHTML "was" going to become a replacement for HTML which is the reason why everyone jumped on the XHTML wagon. Its a misconception that XHTML has greater "benefits" then HTML, apart from the fact it forces the developer to follow strict XML syntax rules. Any good developer can use HTML correctly. The way i see it is if you have no use for XHTML and your only using it because you 'believe' its better then there is no need to use it. Each to there own i guess but when i see a developer using HTML and the markup is perfect i will give him credit. When i see someone misusing elements in an XHTML document; they get no credit. James On Nov 17, 2007 9:18 PM, Kevin Lennon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > James Jeffery wrote: > - The first thing that struck me was the blatent missues of the <em> > element. > > - Missing title attribute from your anchor's > > - No indication as to who or what your site is about. At least a logo or > name. > > - Why use XHTML? If you are not using anything XML related you should > be using HTML. HTML is not dead and just because you use XHTML it does > not mean your site is making good use of Web Standards. If this was do > they would not be working towards HTML5. > > - Class and ID names are not semantic. id="left" would make no sense > if you moved it to the right. > > - Why do you have your text blocks all over the place? I think they > would look better if they were all left aligned and keep the > navigation to the right. > > I like the idea, the font goes well with the simplisit design. Try > making the navigation stand out a bit more and give the page some > natural flow and order. > > There is probably more issues but i only had a quick glance. > > James > > On Nov 17, 2007 4:03 PM, Rahul Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > http://rahulgonsalves.com/research/site/ > > I'm throwing together a quick site to try and fund my travel to an > accessibility conference. I haven't had too much time to check it, or > think it through, but I would appreciate a page check, and general > suggestions/comments. Also, I don't have access to Internet Explorer; > does it behave /reasonably well/ in that browser? > > This is the first semi-fluid width site that I'm working on, so a > criticism of the methods that I have used will be very useful. I > would also appreciate a link to a good max-width emulator for the > various IE-editions that don't support it. > > Many thanks, > - Rahul. > > Apologies to members of css-discuss, who will receive this email twice. > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ******************************************************************* > > > > > > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ******************************************************************* > > > The following statement was from above I only partially agree with. > > > Why use XHTML? If you are not using anything XML related you should > be using HTML. HTML is not dead and just because you use XHTML it does > not mean your site is making good use of Web Standards. If this was do > they would not be working towards HTML5. > > While there is no real reason to use XHTML if you are not using any XML > related code . If you do a little research on HTML you would see that the > W3C has only within the past year or so announced they were even going to > consider extending HTML beyond 4.01. Even so HTML 5 will not be a standard > for several years based on the speed of the W3C in the past. XHTML is here > now to stay and offers a far greater amount of expandability in the future > towards web applications then HTML can ever consider comparing to especially > with all the WEB 2.0 hype out here. > > That announcement was only after Microsoft blatantly stated the Internet > Explorer Browser would never support the mime type of application-xml and > therefore would only interpret XHTML pages as a text/html. It was at that > time also that the W3C appointed the head engineer to the committee to > expand on HTML in the first place. > > I may not post as often as some or even have the knowledge of many of the > members on this list however, I believe if Microsoft would have stood behind > XHTML with their browsers like Firefox and Safari did HTML would certainly > have been a dying markup language. > > It would be nice if the standards were all equally supported among the > browsers but they are not. It would also be nice if there was a way to force > web standards compliance on every website on the web old or new but that > will never happen. > > The best society can hope for is if businesses get educated and require it > of their web designers and programmers it may one day become an actual > standard. I do not think that will happen in my lifetime personally but we > can all dream I guess. As it stands now there seems to be too many people > out there that think the standards are not nearly as important as if a > website looks pretty to the eye. > > > > > > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
