Re: [WSG] Accessibility of Nav Links using Title Tag??

Because the title attribute is part of Standards, screenreaders have been designed with a knowledge it, it's what they expect and it's what they use. So, no there is no better way. -- Stuart Foulstone. http://www.bigeasyweb.co.uk BigEasy Web Design 69 Flockton Court Rockingham Street Sheffield

[WSG] Accessibility of Nav Links using Title Tag??

Hello All - While I know that one should use improve accessibility of form eloements, it is also a common (best practice) to use a title attribute inside a link anchor like this: home If there's a better way, or if I'm completely incorrect regarding making my links more accessible, I'd greatly a

Re: [WSG] Accessibility of Nav Links using Title Tag??

Quoting Cole Kuryakin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello All - While I know that one should use improve accessibility of form eloements, it is also a common (best practice) to use a title attribute inside a link anchor like this: home If there's a better way, or if I'm completely incorrect regarding

Re: [WSG] Accessibility of Nav Links using Title Tag??

Quoting Stuart Foulstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Because the title attribute is part of Standards, screenreaders have been designed with a knowledge it, it's what they expect and it's what they use. Depending on user settings. Many screenreaders don't actually read title by default. So, no

Re: [WSG] setting fontsize in body

Tee G. Peng wrote: I got an impression that setting 100.1% fontsize in body tag is a better approach and have been doing so for many sites. Also, with the 100.1% in the body, I usually declare .85em (.95 for my site as I love big fontsize :) ) for paragraph and lists. I also find that I get a mor

Re: [WSG] setting fontsize in body

On Fri, August 3, 2007 11:36 am, Rick Lecoat wrote: > At 10:13 (London time), on 3/8/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >>Client sent me this link, kind of suggesting that 62.5% is the better >>approach because his client isn't happy that now the heading texts >>are too small and the paragraph texts are t

Re: [WSG] Looking for a Stylesheet Switcher Script

Ya, it's colliding with another script i have but i'll figure it out. Thanks Again. On 8/3/07, Robert O'Rourke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ryan Moore wrote: > > page cannot be displayed...??? > > > > On 8/2/07, *Robert O'Rourke* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > wrote: > > > >

Re: [WSG] setting fontsize in body

At 12:41 (London time), on 3/8/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >Note also that it doesn't actually work .../ snip / >IE ignores fractional components of percentages - or, as another way of >looking at it, only uses the first two decimal places of em based sizes - >which means that any subsequent use

Re: [WSG] setting fontsize in body

At 10:13 (London time), on 3/8/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >I got an impression that setting 100.1% fontsize in body tag is a >better approach and have been doing so for many sites. Also, with the >100.1% in the body, I usually declare .85em (.95 for my site as I >love big fontsize :) ) for

[WSG] setting fontsize in body

Hi, I got an impression that setting 100.1% fontsize in body tag is a better approach and have been doing so for many sites. Also, with the 100.1% in the body, I usually declare .85em (.95 for my site as I love big fontsize :) ) for paragraph and lists. I also find that I get a more stabl

Re: [WSG] Looking for a Stylesheet Switcher Script

Ryan Moore wrote: page cannot be displayed...??? On 8/2/07, *Robert O'Rourke* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: http://webrocket.ulmb.com/ability/ Strange, works for me... The alistapart article someone sent you looks like

[WSG] Julie Watkins-Lyall is away from the office.

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Re: [WSG] setting fontsize in body

Tee G. Peng wrote: What do you think? Save yourself a lot of headache, and use the YUI approach: It works wonders. :) Cheers, Micky -- Wishlists: Switch: BCC?:

Re: [WSG] setting fontsize in body

On 3 Aug 2007, at 16:08:55, Rick Lecoat wrote: At 12:41 (London time), on 3/8/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Note also that it doesn't actually work .../ snip / IE ignores fractional components of percentages - or, as another way of looking at it, only uses the first two decimal places of em

Re: [WSG] setting fontsize in body

Nick Fitzsimons wrote: On 3 Aug 2007, at 16:08:55, Rick Lecoat wrote: When dealing with this the other year, I came up with this solution requiring an additional div, which happened to be there anyway: body { font-size: 125%; /* bump it up to 20px, assuming browser starts at 16px */ }

Re: [WSG] setting fontsize in body

On 2007/08/03 21:14 (GMT+0100) Patrick H. Lauke apparently typed: > Nick Fitzsimons wrote: >> On 3 Aug 2007, at 16:08:55, Rick Lecoat wrote: >> When dealing with this the other year, I came up with this solution >> requiring an additional div, which happened to be there anyway: >> body { >>

Re: [WSG] setting fontsize in body

At 20:14 (London time), on 3/8/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >> (Still falls foul of a minimum font-size set in the browser preferences, >> though.) > >I wouldn't say it "falls foul". If a user has set a minimum size, then a >page should heed that. It still *respects* minimum font-size settings.

Re: [WSG] setting fontsize in body

On 2007/08/03 16:16 (GMT-0400) Rick Lecoat apparently typed: > So, in calculating your 'readable' text size as a proportion of the > (admittedly overlarge) default size, you make yourself vulnerable should > the user have already made their own compensation for the overly large > default size. Th

Re: [WSG] setting fontsize in body

Hi Thanks for all the insightful feedback. I have a very limited freedom on this particular project. A previous version was done quite messy and it seemed time were waste quite a lot, so I was brought in to fix, clean up the code, but the end- client wanted the fontsize stays the same. The p

Re: [WSG] setting fontsize in body

Felix Miata wrote: (Still falls foul of a minimum font-size set in the browser preferences, though.) I wouldn't say it "falls foul". If a user has set a minimum size, then a page should heed that. It still *respects* minimum font-size settings. http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/SS/Clagnut/eonsSS.htm

[WSG] Footer taking width from form

Good morning http://www.colouru.com.au/contactus.html On this particular page in IE only, the #footer seems to be taking its width from the form. I have cleared everything I can think of but cannot find the problem. Thanks Lyn www.westernwebdesign.com.au **

Re: [WSG] setting fontsize in body

Patrick H. Lauke wrote: Ah, a misunderstanding of terminology. I thought "minimum font-size settings" referred to things like Firefox's preference setting for disallowing fonts, even when resized by the user, to fall below a certain fixed size...while in this case y'all seem to mean the defaul

Re: [WSG] setting fontsize in body

On Aug 4, 2007, at 10:45 AM, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Back to Tee's problem with 'body {font-size: 62.5%}' etc in Opera/ Mac. It may be caused by the preset value for 'minimum font size' in that browser/OS. If someone can check the preset value for 'minimum font size' in an unaltered Opera/Mac

Re: [WSG] Footer taking width from form

Lyn Patterson wrote: Good morning http://www.colouru.com.au/contactus.html On this particular page in IE only, the #footer seems to be taking its width from the form. I have cleared everything I can think of but cannot find the problem. Hi Lyn You have a typo in your clearfooter div:

[WSG] Please help! CSS/IE Link Color Problem

Hello All - After tearing my hair out for over 4 hours I come to you guys/gals for a fresh eye and perhaps a solution. I've got a simple class name (.active) attached to an "a" tag. This class is programmatically activated when a link is chosen and the page loads. When the chosen page loads, the

Re: [WSG] Footer taking width from form

Scott Swabey wrote: Lyn Patterson wrote: http://www.colouru.com.au/contactus.html On this particular page in IE only, the #footer seems to be taking its width from the form. I have cleared everything I can think of but cannot find the problem. You have a typo in your clearfooter div:

Re: [WSG] Please help! CSS/IE Link Color Problem

FWIW seems to work in IE7 - dont have IE6 setup at the moment. On 8/4/07, Cole Kuryakin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello All - > > After tearing my hair out for over 4 hours I come to you guys/gals for a > fresh eye and perhaps a solution. > > I've got a simple class name (.active) attached to

Re: [WSG] Please help! CSS/IE Link Color Problem

you could try adding !IMPORTANT after the colour declaration just to see if it is an inheritance issue On 8/4/07, James Gollan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > FWIW seems to work in IE7 - dont have IE6 setup at the moment. > > On 8/4/07, Cole Kuryakin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hello All - >

RE: [WSG] Footer taking width from form

> Good morning > > http://www.colouru.com.au/contactus.html > > On this particular page in IE only, the #footer seems to be taking its > width from the form. I have cleared everything I can think of but > cannot find the problem. Hi Lyn You have a typo in your clearfooter div: See if

RE: [WSG] Please help! CSS/IE Link Color Problem

When the chosen page loads, the chosen link turns deep red. The declaration for this is as follows: /*ACTIVE LINKS ONLY*/ ul#navTopSimpleUL li a.active { color: #CC0033; cursor: default; text-decoration: none; } Hi Cole,, You may want to also set focus on the element an

Re: [WSG] Footer taking width from form

http://www.colouru.com.au/contactus.html On this particular page in IE only, the #footer seems to be taking its width from the form. I have cleared everything I can think of but cannot find the problem. Another thing I find odd is that you are using an empty tag for your form inste

Re: [WSG] Please help! CSS/IE Link Color Problem

the given rule is not using a pseudo selector (:) - it is a simple class definition. This should be consistent across browsers. On 8/4/07, Kepler Gelotte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When the chosen page loads, the chosen link turns deep red. > > The declaration for this is as follows: > > /*ACT

[WSG] CSS/IE Link Color Problem - SOLVED

James and Kepler - Thank you both for your input; I tried suffixing the color and text declaration with !important and that solves the problem. So this, I guess, is an issue of IE's built-in proprietary styles over-riding user styles??? I've never run into that one before. Irritating. Aside from

Re: [WSG] setting fontsize in body

On Aug 3, 2007, at 8:19 PM, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: On Aug 4, 2007, at 10:45 AM, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Back to Tee's problem with 'body {font-size: 62.5%}' etc in Opera/ Mac. It may be caused by the preset value for 'minimum font size' in that browser/OS. If someone can check the preset

Re: [WSG] CSS/IE Link Color Problem - SOLVED

On 4 Aug 2007, at 05:46, Cole Kuryakin wrote: er-riding user styles??? I've never run into that one before. Irritating. Aside from the !important solution or the (as yet untried) focus solution that Kepler suggested, does anyone else have an even more elegant option or ... for my issue

RE: [WSG] CSS/IE Link Color Problem - SOLVED

> now I replace the link with the navigation text wrapped in a span > (programatically) and style the span to match my active/hover needs. > e.g. > ul#navTopSimpleUL li a:focus, > ul#navTopSimpleUL li a:hover, > ul#navTopSimpleUL li.active span > { > color: #CC0033; > cursor: defau