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

[Matthew Ovington]

Hi Mark

Yeah, CSS would have worked fine, but they didn't like the way the text 
wrapped to the next line when enlarged. I'm also with the devil, seen too 
many people curse those placeholding characters when they don't disappear, 
or when they are present but to often people don't believe you when you 
contradict the WAI.

ah well....


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Magennis" <mark.magennis at ncbi.ie>
To: <irl-dean at list.eeng.dcu.ie>
Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 11:00 AM
Subject: RE: [Irl-dean] EIQA's Global Website Certification - the W-Mark?


>> 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
>
>
>
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