Re: [WSG] Best Web Standards thing I learnt in 2005.

2005-12-21 Thread Jared Smith
kvnmcwebn wrote: best things i learned this year- 1)the star selector hack and before that the underscore hack Best thing I learned this year- 1) How to stop using hacks ;-) ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

Re: [WSG] JK Rowlings and Accessibility

2005-12-15 Thread Jared Smith
Stephen Stagg wrote: I'm no expert, but I thought that Flash WAS inaccessible and therefore when designing a flash-based site, compliance cannot be accomplished in any other way BUT by having a text alternative. I totally agree with you (though Flash can be made accessible... kinda). But if

Re: [WSG] JK Rowlings and Accessibility

2005-12-14 Thread Jared Smith
Felicity Farr wrote: I love the attitude of the big players...provide a text alternative and it's instantly accessible. ...and a direct violation of US Section 508: A text-only page, with equivalent information or functionality, shall be provided to make a web site comply with the provisions

Re: [WSG] Font resizing

2005-11-10 Thread Jared Smith
decision and stick with it. I tend to prescribe to the user preferences are for sisses camp - http://www.yourtotalsite.com/archives/usability/user_preferences_are_for_/ Jared Smith WebAIM.org ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org

[WSG] Scalable background-image?

2005-11-08 Thread Jared Smith
Is there any way using CSS to get a background-image to scale? I've created an accessible interface that uses em for layout and font sizing control. Everything scales beautifully as the font size changes except for background images, which remain at the size of the original image. I can't