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From: Williams, William R -FS
Date: Jun 7, 2013 10:40AM

Some comments about the basic mark-up, which is the start for accessibility ...



* The doctype declaration <!DOCTYPE html> = HTML5, but the page is not written in HTML5 markup.

* The file does not validate to W3C standards.

* What? No title tag for this 'page,' which offers a meaningful title?

* You have not set a "charset" parameter to identify character encoding (e.g., utf-8).

* Information contained within the sections Main Navigation and Tag Cloud are not really tabular data, but are laid out using the table element -- best practices would suggest using CSS instead.

* Document structure seems just a bit flawed to me as it regards the heading levels. Why are sections Main Navigation and Tag Cloud marked-up as heading level 2s when, what seems to me, more important information that follows are sectioned within heading level 3s? In fact, using CSS positioning (perhaps to float right) for the Main Navigation and Tag Cloud sections, I might make them h3s and the headings starting with Introduction as h2s.

* Some inconsistencies in markup; e.g., the following paragraph is closed (probably just an oversight): "Individuals living with a disability use assistive technologies such as the following to enable and assist web browsing:"





Bill Williams

Communications Specialist



U.S. Forest Service,

Pacific Southwest Region

1323 Club Drive

Vallejo CA 94592



http://www.fs.usda.gov/r5

707.562.9005



-----Original Message-----
From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Ravindra Kumar Jain
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2013 2:39 AM
To: webaim-forum
Subject: [WebAIM] www.projectrics.org



Hello Everyone .



It gives me great pleasure and excitement to tell everybody that , I have come up with a website dedicated to accessibility.

link:

www.projectrics.org<;http://www.projectrics.org>;



I have developed it using Codeigniter MVC framework version 2.1.3 and PHP.



Since the start of this project , It has been more of learning and experimentation.

As my belief about accessibility has always been that



"PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE IS THE BEST WAY TO LEARN AND IMPLEMENT ACCESSIBILITY "



Coming to this site , I have many long term and short term goals ,



One of them is "SIMPLIFYING IMPLEMENTATION OF DIFFERENT ACCESSIBILITY GUIDELINES" like WCAG 2.0 , SECTION 508 etc.



This can only happen , when this site comes of it's age.



I require full support of "My accessibility family" , as from time to time your suggestions and feedback will give a lot of encouragement .



So your feedback from time to time is very valuable to me , as I am sure that many of you may have gone through the same phase.



Please do let me know what you think.



I REQUEST YOU TO CURRENTLY LOOK AT IT FROM ACCESSIBILITY PERSPECTIVE MORE RATHER THAN PRESENTATION .



AS MY FOCUS IS MORE TOWARDS QUALITY CONTENT



ALSO PLEASE NOTE THAT CURRENTLY THIS IS NOT A FULL TIME PROJECT FOR ME AS I AM ALREADY DEDICATING MY TIME IN AN ORGANIZATION PROPAGATING POINT OF ACCESSIBILITY.



Tanks & Regards,



Ravindra



Accessibility Engineer

Onya Digital Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Bangalore (India)

Email : <EMAIL REMOVED> <mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> >

Cell no : +91-8277470220

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