Re: [WSG] input type='image'

2007-01-08 Thread Matthew Pennell
On 1/8/07, Kay Smoljak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check out what you can do with button - it's the forgotten form element :) Also more on button / here: http://www.digital-web.com/articles/push_my_button/ *** List Guidelines:

Re: [WSG] input type='image'

2007-01-08 Thread James Oppenheim
Thanks, I will have a look at the button and see what I come up with. Cheers. From: Matthew Pennell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] input type='image' Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 08:48:36 + On 1/8/07, Kay Smoljak [EMAIL

Re: [WSG] input type='image'

2007-01-08 Thread John Faulds
Also more on button / here: http://www.digital-web.com/articles/push_my_button/ And a bit more on styling buttons (although some of it deals with inputs too): http://www.tyssendesign.com.au/articles/css/styling-form-buttons/ -- Tyssen Design www.tyssendesign.com.au Ph: (07) 3300 3303 Mb:

[WSG] Using em's as unit measure

2007-01-08 Thread Martyn Clark
Hi I have a div element with just a few words of text directly in the div, I have applied padding using em's but when I view this in IE and Firefox IE seems to make the element larger than it appears in Firefox. If I put an equal amount of padding all round the div element in Firefox this

Re: [WSG] Re: SUP

2007-01-08 Thread Jan Brasna
'Morgen, My hardline semantics reply would be... Math (a2), square units (km2), Should be MathML? chemistry formulas (Na2CO3) ... ChemML? I exactly know your reason for putting it this way, but (and the same goes for modularity) it does not serve the common needs (read: a

Re: [WSG] Time-lapse animation of a CSS site being built?

2007-01-08 Thread Lindsay Evans
On 1/8/07, Ben Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone remember this have the URL? Yup: http://mboffin.com/post.aspx?id=1619 (text link in the post) Awesome, thanks Ben! -- Lindsay Evans http://lindsayevans.com/ ***

Re: [WSG] website checker

2007-01-08 Thread Brian Cummiskey
John 'Max' Maxwell wrote: Hi All, Can someone tell me the best way to check my website for 'accessability'?? I have done a standard HTML and CSS validation so I can be 100% before advertising the fact in my footer etc. But is there a 1 click Y/N tester for accessibility that works in the same

Re: [WSG] website checker

2007-01-08 Thread David Dorward
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 04:50:06PM -, John 'Max' Maxwell wrote: Can someone tell me the best way to check my website for 'accessability'?? Pay an expert (or become one yourself). Email me off list if you want a recommendation, I won't spam the group with it. The RNIB is also likely to be

Re: [WSG] website checker

2007-01-08 Thread Matthew Pennell
On 1/8/07, John 'Max' Maxwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone tell me the best way to check my website for 'accessability'?? I have done a standard HTML and CSS validation so I can be 100% before advertising the fact in my footer etc. But is there a 1 click Y/N tester for accessibility

Re: [WSG] website checker

2007-01-08 Thread Frances Berriman
On 08/01/07, Brian Cummiskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John 'Max' Maxwell wrote: Hi All, Can someone tell me the best way to check my website for 'accessability'?? I have done a standard HTML and CSS validation so I can be 100% before advertising the fact in my footer etc. But is there a 1

RE: [WSG] website checker

2007-01-08 Thread Kepler Gelotte
Can someone tell me the best way to check my website for 'accessability'?? I like this one: http://www.sidar.org/hera/ because it has icons next to the error descriptions that highlight exactly where in your page the problem is or where you need to check. Regards, Kepler Gelotte, President

RE: [WSG] website checker

2007-01-08 Thread John 'Max' Maxwell
Thanks guys, Pretty much as I thought then. Thanks again for your time and Happy New Year all. Kind regards, Max. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:

[WSG] Image markup clarification

2007-01-08 Thread Robin @ Xplore.net
Happy New Year Group, Could someone please clarify for me the best way to markup an image in a template, take a header image for example. In the interest of keeping structure from content I have recently been using background images wherever possible to keep my markup as clean as possible but

RE: [WSG] Image markup clarification

2007-01-08 Thread Paul Bennett
Happy New Year to you too Robin! You may want to look at CSS image replacement: http://www.google.com/search?q=css+image+replacement Personally, I've had good experience with the very simple: h1img src=my-header.gif alt=Page Title //h1 Paul From:

Re: [WSG] Image markup clarification

2007-01-08 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Robin @ Xplore.net wrote: Happy New Year Group, Could someone please clarify for me the best way to markup an image in a template, take a header image for example. In the interest of keeping structure from content I have recently been using background images wherever possible to keep my

Re: [WSG] Image markup clarification

2007-01-08 Thread David Dorward
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 08:23:18AM +1300, Robin @ Xplore.net wrote: Could someone please clarify for me the best way to markup an image in a template, take a header image for example. In the interest of keeping structure from content I have recently been using background images

Re: [WSG] Image markup clarification

2007-01-08 Thread Paul Novitski
At 1/8/2007 11:23 AM, Robin @ Xplore.net wrote: Could someone please clarify for me the best way to markup an image in a template, take a header image for example. In the interest of keeping structure from content I have recently been using background images wherever possible to keep my markup

Re: [WSG] Image markup clarification

2007-01-08 Thread John S. Britsios
Robin, since you are using background images, I assume that the images are meaningless, and only for decoration reasons. Therefore you do not need alt attributes there. It is true that alt attributes are a little piece of the search engines algorithms, which can boost a bit your rankings,

RE: [WSG] Image markup clarification

2007-01-08 Thread Robin @ Xplore.net
Thank you for your reply's to this post, and your interesting comments. That has now given me some clarity on the subject. I hadn't thought about the actual content of he image as having information before and therefore being part of the structure. Again Excellent Thank you.

[WSG] website checker

2007-01-08 Thread John 'Max' Maxwell
Hi All, Can someone tell me the best way to check my website for 'accessability'?? I have done a standard HTML and CSS validation so I can be 100% before advertising the fact in my footer etc. But is there a 1 click Y/N tester for accessibility that works in the same way as the W3 site checker

RE: [WSG] website checker

2007-01-08 Thread Kepler Gelotte
Can someone tell me the best way to check my website for 'accessability'?? I like this one: http://www.sidar.org/hera/ because it has icons next to the error descriptions that highlight exactly where in your page the problem is or where you need to check. Regards, Kepler Gelotte, President

Re: [WSG] website checker

2007-01-08 Thread Brian Cummiskey
John 'Max' Maxwell wrote: Hi All, Can someone tell me the best way to check my website for 'accessability'?? I have done a standard HTML and CSS validation so I can be 100% before advertising the fact in my footer etc. But is there a 1 click Y/N tester for accessibility that works in the

Re: [WSG] website checker

2007-01-08 Thread Frances Berriman
On 08/01/07, Brian Cummiskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John 'Max' Maxwell wrote: Hi All, Can someone tell me the best way to check my website for 'accessability'?? I have done a standard HTML and CSS validation so I can be 100% before advertising the fact in my footer etc. But is there a

RE: [WSG] website checker

2007-01-08 Thread John 'Max' Maxwell
Thanks guys, Pretty much as I thought then. Thanks again for your time and Happy New Year all. Kind regards, Max. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:

Re: [WSG] website checker

2007-01-08 Thread Matthew Pennell
On 1/8/07, John 'Max' Maxwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone tell me the best way to check my website for 'accessability'?? I have done a standard HTML and CSS validation so I can be 100% before advertising the fact in my footer etc. But is there a 1 click Y/N

Re: [WSG] website checker

2007-01-08 Thread David Dorward
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 04:50:06PM -, John 'Max' Maxwell wrote: Can someone tell me the best way to check my website for 'accessability'?? Pay an expert (or become one yourself). Email me off list if you want a recommendation, I won't spam the group with it. The RNIB is also likely to be

[WSG] display:none; property and screenreaders

2007-01-08 Thread Mihael Zadravec
Hello list! Is it true that if we use like div style=display:none;, that div could be invisible for screenreader software? thank you! Mihael (Slovenija) *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] display:none; property and screenreaders

2007-01-08 Thread David Dorward
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 11:47:52PM +0100, Mihael Zadravec wrote: Is it true that if we use like div style=display:none;, that div could be invisible for screenreader software? Yes -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk

Re: [WSG] display:none; property and screenreaders

2007-01-08 Thread Matthew Cruickshank
Hi Mihael, Is it true that if we use like div style=display:none;, that div could be invisible for screenreader software? Yes, here's an article with a table of affected screen readers (scroll down to the table) http://alistapart.com/articles/fir/ Joe Clark seems to claim that Jaws