[WSG] scrolling text and images

2007-05-03 Thread Robin
I have been asked by a client for an area on his website that will have scrolling text or images or both and also a devolving and resolving image panel. I have advised against this as moving things on pages constantly annoy as well as the inaccessibility issues that using scripts bring. So my

RE: [WSG] scrolling text and images

2007-05-03 Thread Web Dandy Design
Hi Robin, We have used scrolling text on a school website as a 'ticker tape' of latest news. We removed the Stop/Start function and made the text static if the user doesn't have Javascript. Details can be found at: http://www.websemantics.co.uk/tutorials/accessible_scroller/. We also used a

RE: [WSG] scrolling text and images

2007-05-03 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Quoting Web Dandy Design [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://www.websemantics.co.uk/tutorials/accessible_scroller/. That code would benefit from a few return false; to avoid the whole jumping back to the top of the document behaviour the start/show links currently exhibit, but otherwise it looks

Re: [WSG] scrolling text and images

2007-05-03 Thread Richard McCoy
Robin wrote: I have been asked by a client for an area on his website that will have scrolling text or images or both and also a devolving and resolving image panel. I have advised against this as moving things on pages constantly annoy as well as the inaccessibility issues that using

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2007-05-03 Thread Lynda Kelly
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Re: [WSG] scrolling text and images

2007-05-03 Thread Karl Lurman
Hi, When I have implemented these news-ticker-like 'widgets', I have made sure that at the very least, the content I am using within the widget is readable by a screen reader. This can be done by putting xhtml into a div, and placing it off screen (to the left with negative em). On instantiation

Re: [WSG] [potentially OT] HTML History

2007-05-03 Thread Christian Montoya
On 5/1/07, Katrina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gday all, I'm reading a paper from 1999: Lie, HÃ¥kon Wium., 1999, Multipurpose Web Publishing Using HTML, XML and CSS, Communications of the ACM, vol 42. no 10, p95 and have come across a paragraph that hints at conflicting ideology early in the

Re: [WSG] [potentially OT] HTML History

2007-05-03 Thread Matthew Cruickshank
Christian Montoya wrote: What were those early sentiments against specifying HTML as an SGML DTD? Can anyone elaborate? I know I'm only guessing here, but I think there were other proposals for how HTML should have been implemented, XML DTD being one of them. AFAIK, SGML won out because it was

RE: [WSG] scrolling text and images

2007-05-03 Thread Robin Gorry
Karl wrote: When I have implemented these news-ticker-like 'widgets', I have made sure that at the very least, the content I am using within the widget is readable by a screen reader. This can be done by putting xhtml into a div, and placing it off screen (to the left with negative em).