need a little site assistance with accessbility

[Nigel Lew]

Hi, I need my sites to validate, pass muster, what have you.. I figured I should post a site review request regarding accessiblity issues here..

However all suggestions welcome. I think I have sorted out I need access keys, but I need someone a little more versed in accessibility to point me in the right direction...


thanks much
Nigel lew

[rhsunderground]

check out the many links on accessibility in the stickies. they've helped me.;)

[Nigel Lew]

Thanks, I was able to sort out quite a bit actually!...

Nigel

[zachzach]

Your sites are very good validation wise...but not the best they can be semantically speaking.

<br /> tags don't(In my opinion) represent any semantic structure--there for line breaks. Tecnically thats presentation. If you want to seperate paragraphs, use seperate <p> tags/tag blocks. If you want to have a space between something, use margins. If you have a case where you can't space something(they are inline), ask me for help, I have had this situation many times.

You're not using tables, so we don't really have to speak about that. But try to use the <div> tags as little as posible to get the same results.

Those are some good guidlines but there are many more. Try looking at some of the sites in my signature and:
http://456bereastreet.com/

[Robert Wellock]

I assume you have alternatives to the DHTML menu also I would like to know where the access key list or accessibility statement is since you claim WAI AAA. You could also make better use of the a:focus for the footer. That's just for starters.