[Irl-dean] EIQA's Global Website Certification - the W-Mark?

[Mark Magennis]

> If JavaScript is not present, or deactivated, the 
> text remains 
> (and this is a WAI Priority 3 checkpoint - 
> http://accessit.nda.ie/guideline_1_101.html)

"Until user agents", and they do.

> Depending on who you talk to, 
> some people seem to believe that placeholding characters are 
> the devils work, and others say that they are absoluty necessary.

I go with the Devil on this one. It causes usability problems and no
longer fixes accessibility ones. In user tests, we often see users
entering searches like "Seabanana spiderrch".

> The use of graphics for the blue navigation bar was a "must have"for 
> aesthetic reasons (!).

! indeed, but are there not other (admittedly less than perfect)
work-arounds, such as putting different sized versions of the image in
the CSS?

Also, while I'm in nit-picky bashing mode, the skip navigation is hidden
and the alt text for the nice colourful picture at the top of each page
is torturous (and it probably shows a "plate" of food, not a "pate",
although I can't see either, so maybe they're right) ;-)

Mark