Re: [WSG] SEO and headers order

2009-04-14 Thread Rob Enslin
Hi Caleb, I might be wrong but anecdotal evidence suggests order is not an 'issue' for bots scanning your site. I'm other words by in large so long as your code is structured correctly your , etc will be indexed appropriately. The only caveat/exception is non-valid code. Also, long, heav

Re: [WSG] SEO and headers order

2009-04-14 Thread j...@plaveb.com
Hello, Search engine will crawl column right first than column left and than column middle. still you can use lynx browser to check how search engine will crawl your website. You can get that browser from Google webmaster guideline. all the best let me know if you need any help related to SEO

[WSG] SEO and headers order

2009-04-14 Thread Caleb Wong
Hi, I have a SEO question regarding how search engines scans a website. Say for example if I have a site where it has a 3 column layout. Column left and column right appears before the middle column area, and within column left, right there are h2, h3 tags; within the middle column there is a h1 t

[WSG] My Site Background Image and css

2009-04-14 Thread Marvin Hunkin
HI. if you visit http://tracs.co.nz/marvin and a sighted friend, helping me out. but he says that i have a image with a layover background. can any one take a look and help me out? how to do this in css, as a blind web developer, and cannot edit graphics using a screen reader like jaws for windows

[WSG] Image Replacement and Accessabilty

2009-04-14 Thread David Hucklesby
You wrote: > > Other than using an img element and alt attribute, what image > replacement techniques are also accessible? > This is worth a look: http://www.tjkdesign.com/articles/tip.asp Cordially, David -- *** List Guidelines

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2009-04-14 Thread Peter Larsen
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RE: [WSG] Image Replacement and Accessabilty

2009-04-14 Thread Darren Lovelock
What I came up with a while ago for a button was this: Set your button image on the anchor using CSS and leave a few pixels of solid colour around the image. Make the spacer img inside the same colour as the solid colour so when it overlaps the edge of the anchor it cant be seen. Images

Re: [WSG] Image Replacement and Accessabilty

2009-04-14 Thread Mitch Malone
I don't see any reason it wouldn't be. - M (Could ad...@bizwebbiz.com please turn off their autoresponder?) On 15/04/2009, at 11:34 AM, Christopher Kennon wrote: Is this method screen-reader accessible ? On Apr 14, 2009, at 6:03 PM, Mitch Malone wrote: This is what I would recommend...

Re: [WSG] Image Replacement and Accessabilty

2009-04-14 Thread Mitch Malone
Hmmm... If they had images off, no. CSS off, yes. Touché! - M On 15/04/2009, at 11:31 AM, Darren Lovelock wrote: Thats not really accessible is it? Visitors with images switched off wont be able to see anything. Regards, Darren Lovelock Munky Online Web Design http://www.munkyonline.co.uk

RE: [WSG] Image Replacement and Accessabilty

2009-04-14 Thread Steve Green
-Original Message- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org]on Behalf Of Christopher Kennon Sent: 15 April 2009 01:40 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Image Replacement and Accessabilty Hi All, The text indent CSS property can render an h# eleme

Re: [WSG] Image Replacement and Accessabilty

2009-04-14 Thread Christopher Kennon
Is this method screen-reader accessible ? On Apr 14, 2009, at 6:03 PM, Mitch Malone wrote: This is what I would recommend... HTML: This is the link text CSS: hX.hideme { text-indent: -px; background: url("linktofile.png"); height: XXpx; // This should match t

RE: [WSG] Image Replacement and Accessabilty

2009-04-14 Thread Darren Lovelock
Thats not really accessible is it? Visitors with images switched off wont be able to see anything. Regards, Darren Lovelock Munky Online Web Design http://www.munkyonline.co.uk T: +44 (0)20-8816-8893 _ From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@

RE: [WSG] Image Replacement and Accessabilty

2009-04-14 Thread Darren Lovelock
Hi Chris, The best I have found is Facelift Image Replacement - FLIR which is accessible as it doesn't affect the source code. Style your text as normal with CSS and then it uses PHP, JavaScript and font files to convert your text into images which it places over the text. Switch JavaScript of

Re: [WSG] Image Replacement and Accessabilty

2009-04-14 Thread Mitch Malone
This is what I would recommend... HTML: This is the link text CSS: hX.hideme { text-indent: -px; background: url("linktofile.png"); height: XXpx; // This should match the a element width: XXpx; // This should match the a element } hX.hideme a:link, hX.hi

[WSG] Image Replacement and Accessabilty

2009-04-14 Thread Christopher Kennon
Hi All, The text indent CSS property can render an h# element inaccessible to screen readers. Other than using an img element and alt attribute, what image replacement techniques are also accessible? h#{ text-indent: -px; } Chris **