RE: [WSG] AAA Accessibility and validation

[Chabot, Elliot]

The requirement for validation in WCAG 1.0 is contained in checkpoint
3.2,
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/wai-pageauth.html#tech-identify-grammar.   

Incidentally, checkpoint 3.2 is a requirement for Double-A conformance
in WCAG 1.0.


Elliot Chabot
Web Solutions Branch
House Information Resources
U.S. House of Representatives
http://www.house.gov 


-Original Message-
From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org]
On Behalf Of David Dorward
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 7:46 AM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] AAA Accessibility and validation

 
On 13 Jan 2010, at 04:02, c...@fagandesign.com.au wrote:
> Now, this Accessibility Appendix lists CSS validation (point 3) as a
required attribute for compliance.

No, it doesn't. The document says, under conformance:

* Conformance Level "Triple-A": all Priority 1, 2, and 3
checkpoints are satisfied;

Appendix A doesn't list any checkpoints.

> I guess my question is: Do IE-related CSS hacks cause a document to
fail AAA (or A/AA for that matter) Accessibility compliance?

Maybe and no. There are IE-related CSS hacks that are valid, and others
that are not.

The valid ones don't cause it to fail any checkpoint, as far as I know.

Guideline 3 says "Use markup and style sheets and do so properly" and
you could make a case that invalid CSS is not "using style sheets
properly".

Checkpoint 3.2 says "Create documents that validate to published formal
grammars.", but it can be argued that a style sheet is not a document.

Meanwhile, WCAG 2.0 makes no requirement that CSS be valid (and when
refers to 'markup' rather than 'documents').

-- 
David Dorward
http://dorward.me.uk



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RE: [WSG] Looking for Images

[Chabot, Elliot]

 
You also may want to look at the Veterans History Project of the Library
of Congress at http://www.loc.gov/vets/. 

 Elliot

-Original Message-
From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org]
On Behalf Of J.S. Ferguson
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 10:24 PM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] Looking for Images

If you're still looking, you might check with the owner of http:// 
www.hnsa.org/index.htm

Steve Ferguson - 
Developer of WebLight the practical web site content testing tool

On Nov 2, 2009, at 12:51 AM, Marvin Hunkin wrote:

> hi.
> doing a world war veterans club website.
> actually updating it.
> so was wondering, looking for images, of icons, logos, ships,  
> planes, sub
> marines, flags, pictures of men , woman.
> and could spend years trolling via google images.
> so i would ask.
> where i could find royalty free images.
> that is accessible with a screen reader.
> cheers Marvin.
>
>
>
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RE: [WSG] Deprecated "start" for lists confirmation

[Chabot, Elliot]

The "start" attribute for lists was deprecated by § 10.2 of the HTML 4.01 
specification - 
http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/struct/lists.html#adef-start.  

Elliot 

From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On 
Behalf Of Erickson, Kevin (DOE)
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 10:17 AM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: [WSG] Deprecated "start" for lists confirmation

Hello,
Is the "start" attribute truly deprecated for a list? Is there a better way to 
do this?
i.e. - 

info 
info

 

 

info>

 
Thank you,
Kevin


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RE: [WSG] new site review

[Chabot, Elliot]

A good validator for color contrast is the Contrast Analyser at
http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/contrast-analyser.html - which
validates against the luminosity standards set out in Guidelines 1.4.3
and 1.4.6 of the W3C's WCAG 2.0 standard. 

  Elliot


-Original Message-
From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org]
On Behalf Of Chris F.A. Johnson
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 3:34 PM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] new site review

On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Raul Ferrer wrote:
> http://www.raulferrer.com

  The contrast between most of the text and its background is so low
  as to be unreadable.

-- 
   Chris F.A. Johnson, webmaster 
   ===
   Author:
   Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)


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RE: [WSG] The of the document

[Chabot, Elliot]

At the web shop for the U.S. House of Representatives, we recommend that
our offices use Dublin Core and a number of other  tags.  The
specific tags that we recommend are set out at
http://cao.house.gov/web-standards/best-practices.pdf#page=186. 

 

Elliot 

 



From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org]
On Behalf Of Paul Collins
Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 8:15 AM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: [WSG] The  of the document

 

Hi all,

 

I'm just curious to know what other people do these days with the header
of their document? What is best practice for:

 

- Good search engine rankings

- Best charset for English text (utf-8, right?) 

- Do we need robots - all anymore?

- Any Accessibility issues? (Can't think of any)

- Does anyone bother with descriptions, keywords anymore?

- Dublin Core metadata, is that a forgotten fad?!

 

I'll show you an example of how I setup a standard page, please anyone
offer what they think is best practice, or perhaps send any useful
links:

 

http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";>
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";
xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

 
 
 TITLE
 
 
 
  


 

Cheers

 

 


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RE: [WSG] JavaScript Language Clarifying within HTML

[Chabot, Elliot]

Section 18.2.1 of the W3C HTML 4.01 Specification
  also provides that
the "type" attribute should be used to perform the function previously
carried out by the