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mattastic
05-17-2006, 06:28 AM
Hi Guys,
I'm after some advice. I've been forced to put a rather nasty looking graphic on the frontpage of the website I look after. It links to a PDF file advertising various courses.
http://www.halesowen.ac.uk/
Could you take a look and let me know what you think. I would like some reasons to argue against having such a graphic. I think a simple text link, linking to a webpage would be much more worthwhile.
Can you advise please?
Thankyou
GaryS
05-19-2006, 05:33 AM
My first reaction is not so much that the link is an image, more that it links directly to a .pdf: there's no warning that a "download is coming," nor an indication as to its size.
It would be more "friendlly" to link to an intermediate page giving a summary of the document, plus a (text) link containing the name of the document, its type (.pdf) and its size (210 KB)
wamboid
05-19-2006, 10:03 AM
Another reason would be that I can't read part of the writing, specifically the white part towards the top on the left side. Of course, my eyes are pretty bad.
Moldarin
05-25-2006, 07:48 PM
Try to disable the CSS of your Website. Then there is way to much scrolling! Try and hide the «Short IE course» image. That whould help a lot.
And on another note. You should remove the old, orange RSS icon and replace it with the new standard one (http://feedicons.com/). The starndard feed icon has been adopted by Microsoft in Windows Vista, and Windows Internet Explorer 7, and by Mozilla in Firefox, by Opera Software in Opera 9 and many more.
jw_developer
05-26-2006, 02:08 AM
I agree that its not the prettiest looking image. The blue in the image doesn't mesh well with the rest of the site.
As far as accesability goes, it NEEDS an alt attribute that conveys the same info as the picture.
Now if you want some accessability arguments for getting rid of it... Refer to WCAG 2.0 Guideline 1.1: Provide text alternatives for all non-text content (http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/guidelines.html#text-equiv). Also, Guideline 1.4 Make it easy to distinguish foreground information from its background (http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/guidelines.html#visual-audio-contrast).
Hope that helps.