Access issues being addressed. [Archive]

Mouse77e

11-10-2006, 05:03 AM

Dear All,

My code nerds and I are rebuilding my old flat (in every sense) site into a new dynamic site… and I as the Dyslexic team leader am aiming for a clean accessible site, lots of <alt> and <title> tags, high definition text/background ratios, resizable text etc. but can you please have a look at the site in a more general way and let me have your feedback?

It is still very much a work in progress so constructive criticism will be most welcome.

Many Thanks

Mouse

grumpyoldtechs

11-11-2006, 05:40 AM

right lets begin:

don't use in page styles try to keep everything within a style sheet.

validate everything to XHTML 1.0 strict

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

remember margins, paddings and borders are added onto your width so if your container is 100% then you add 5px margin you will end up with the horizontal scrolling effect which you have at the moment. also if all the inside containers =100% then you add margins, borders, padding it will be added onto the 100% making more horizontal scrolling.

all tags should be lowercase

all images should <img src="image link" alt="some text about the image" longdesc="if your targeting people with accessibility issues this is a good thing to use"/>

use a submit button for the login it allows more use of the keyboard login pass then hit enter rather than having to use the mouse.

hope the list helped.

it's nice to see someone actually taking accessibility into consideration