Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time

2007-03-20 Thread Bob Schwartz
You should also perhaps markup your logo H1 content as a change from the declared natural language of the page (English). Thanks for you tips Stuart: 1. How do I do that? 2.I'm curious as to why you think it is necessary - it is the name of the association - I doubt if Danone or Armani

Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time

2007-03-20 Thread Bob Schwartz
Thanks Lyn, During the planning for the site re-do we relied pretty heavily on a year's worth of visitor stats in making decisions. One of the things our stats showed us was the very low percentage of 800 x 600 and below visitors we had, plus people were complaining that the site was

Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time

2007-03-20 Thread Lyn Patterson
During the planning for the site re-do we relied pretty heavily on a year's worth of visitor stats in making decisions. One of the things our stats showed us was the very low percentage of 800 x 600 and below visitors we had, plus people were complaining that the site was looking too small,

[WSG] stopping the email

2007-03-20 Thread Chris Cheetham
Greetings I signed up to this service a while back and I want to be removed but I don't know the password I signed up for the account with. If you could cancel the account for me that would be ace! Cheers in advance Chris Cheetham

Re: [WSG] stopping the email - ADMIN

2007-03-20 Thread russ - maxdesign
If you could cancel the account for me that would be ace! ADMIN If you want to unsubscribe or you want help with the mail list, please email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DON'T email the list with these sort of topics as they go out to 4500 people who don't really care about your issues. We, on the other

Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time

2007-03-20 Thread Bob Schwartz
Thanks Kenny, I would appreciate it if you guys could check it out for any errors or wrong practices Most/every page has two h1's, and there should only be one per page. Ideally, you should keep the h1 for the page title, but not for the site title. I've fixed these (not yet uploaded to

Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time

2007-03-20 Thread Bob Schwartz
Nick, 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. They were originally put there

Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time

2007-03-20 Thread Bob Schwartz
Stuart, Your menu has links with the same anchor text but different destinations - introduction, current and members. When you can see the menu structure the context is obvious but when using a screen reader this can This is a real head-scratcher. I'm having trouble finding other words

Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time

2007-03-20 Thread Bob Schwartz
Rob, The navigation is dependent on javascript for the flyouts which not only do the flyouts cease to work when js is turned off they also become dead links leaving only a partial working menu. What browser - OS are you using? In everything I've checked it in, the links are not dead with

[WSG] ODF Accessibility Checking and Repair Tool

2007-03-20 Thread Jon Gunderson
Computer Science students at the University of Illinois are working on an web based Open Document Format (ODF) accessibility checking and repair tool for improving the accessibility of ODF documents to people with disabilities. They have just added some repair features and would love your

[WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time - IE weirdness

2007-03-20 Thread Bob Schwartz
In the test site I put up the other day for scrutiny http:/// www.fotografics.it/fife/ I have discovered a funny one with IE 6 If you go to organization ---commissions--- any commission except show you should see an image beside the list of names. The image is attached as a background to the

Re: [WSG] centring and viewport size (OT?)

2007-03-20 Thread Designer
David Hucklesby wrote: Use JavaScript to change the element's top-margin style directly, perhaps? Cordially, David -- How exactly would you do that? (I'm interested, and I'm learning :-) ) -- Bob www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk

[WSG] Using headers symantically

2007-03-20 Thread Lee Powell
Hi all, Last evening I was playing around with some conceptual work which included a vast number of headers, and it got me thinking into how best to use them, and indeed how the spec says to use them. The W3C spec states, that the range of headers goes from h1 through to h6, and that

Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time - IE weirdness

2007-03-20 Thread Jorge Laranjo
meta name=author content=Penny Bydlinski Bob Schwartz / The '' should be escaped as amp; You can see that you've only got one 'warning' and that's it! http:// tinyurl.com/2m4pey Em 2007/03/20, às 18:46, Bob Schwartz escreveu: In the test site I put up the other day for scrutiny http:///

Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time - IE weirdness

2007-03-20 Thread Jorge Laranjo
An try to use http://www.sidar.org/hera/ (you can choose you're language) to check your site And you're site has 1 error for the Priority 3: Keyboard shortcuts: No keyboard shortcuts provided. Em 2007/03/20, às 18:46, Bob Schwartz escreveu: In the test site I put up the other day for

Re: [WSG] Using headers symantically

2007-03-20 Thread Designer
Lee Powell wrote: Hi all, Last evening I was playing around with some conceptual work which included a vast number of headers, and it got me thinking into how best to use them, and indeed how the spec says to use them. The W3C spec states, that the range of headers goes from h1 through to

Re: [WSG] Using headers symantically

2007-03-20 Thread Matthew Pennell
On 3/20/07, Designer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: h2Title/h2 psome text/p h4Sub-Title of Title/h4 pmore text/p h3Title/h3 psome text/p h4Sub-Title of Title/h4 pmore text/p And that seems fine to me. You can 'see' the structure by looking at the code, so it means (to

Re: [WSG] Using headers symantically

2007-03-20 Thread ~davidLaakso
Lee Powell wrote: Last evening I was playing around with some conceptual work which included a vast number of headers, and it got me thinking into how best to use them, and indeed how the spec says to use them. The W3C spec states, that the range of headers goes from h1 through to h6, and

Re: [WSG] Using headers symantically

2007-03-20 Thread Nick Fitzsimons
On 20 Mar 2007, at 20:23:59, Matthew Pennell wrote: On 3/20/07, Designer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: h2Title/h2 psome text/p h4Sub-Title of Title/h4 pmore text/p h3Title/h3 psome text/p h4Sub-Title of Title/h4 pmore text/p And that seems fine to me. You can 'see'

Re: [WSG] Using headers symantically

2007-03-20 Thread Stuart Foulstone
Hi, In the past (and sometimes at present) Webpages were produced (I wouldn't say designed) with heading tags used purely for their visual presentation of text rather than actually being a header in the structure of the document. This is partly what the W3C is getting at. The important thing

Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time

2007-03-20 Thread Stuart Foulstone
On Tue, March 20, 2007 11:56 am, Bob Schwartz wrote: You should also perhaps markup your logo H1 content as a change from the declared natural language of the page (English). Thanks for you tips Stuart: 1. How do I do that? 2.I'm curious as to why you think it is necessary - it is the

Re: [WSG] centring and viewport size (OT?)

2007-03-20 Thread David Hucklesby
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:43:58 +, Designer wrote: Thanks to those who responded on this. What I've done is to make a file which uses the javascript to determine the space available in the browser window, [...] You can see all this at: http://www.rhh.myzen.co.uk/gam/sandbox/ David

Re: [WSG] centring and viewport size (OT?)

2007-03-20 Thread David Hucklesby
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:43:58 +, Designer wrote: Thanks to those who responded on this. What I've done is to make a file which uses the javascript to determine the space available in the browser window, [...] You can see all this at: http://www.rhh.myzen.co.uk/gam/sandbox/ David

Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time

2007-03-20 Thread Bob Schwartz
OK, you convinced me. Your reason for doing so is far more valid than my lame reasoning with the Danone and Armani examples. Thanks. On Tue, March 20, 2007 11:56 am, Bob Schwartz wrote: You should also perhaps markup your logo H1 content as a change from the declared natural language of