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From: Holly Marie
Date: Sep 5, 2003 5:36AM

From: "Ben Morrison"

> On 4/9/03 5:30 pm, "Paul Bohman" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> > Ben Morrison wrote:
> >
> > Almost finished the re-design of our new website.
> > http://www.pup-e.co.uk/sitecheck All feedback much appreciated.
> >
> > My response:
> >
> > Congratulations on your first foray into CSS layout. The hardest
part is to
> > make the jump. Now that you've done it, it's just a matter of fine
tuning
> > things.
> >
> > I opened the site in the Opera browser (www.opera.com) and turned
> > stylesheets off by going into "user mode". One thing that I noticed
is that
> > there could be some improvements in the way that the content
linearizes
> > (i.e. the reading order of the content when all styles and tables
are turned
> > off).
> >
>
> I've had problems trying to re-order elements, ill keep trying.

A nice advantage that CSS has over table layout for pages is the ability
to rearrange content for better readability[or linearize the delivery in
optimal ways.] Tables are more or less fixed sequentially by the row by
row, left to right delivery mode.

Have you seen this web page on ordering columns or items on a page?
I thought it was an interesting set of online tools... plug in the way
you want the page to display and it renders the CSS for the layout. I
have not personally checked this tool's CSS output, but it might be
handy or worth a try. There are notes on each tool one is fixed the
other is float.
http://www.fu2k.org/alex/css/layouts/3Col_NN4_FMFM.mhtml
http://www.fu2k.org/alex/css/layouts/3Col_OrderedAbsolute.mhtml

Other 3 column type layouts are linked at:
http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=ThreeColumnLayouts

> > I did notice that your map on the "get in touch" page was missing
alt text,
> > but this looks like an oversight, since you've paid attention to alt
text
> > throughout the site (it happens to the best of us).
> >
> Should there be alt text for a map, we have the address their. OR
would you
> explain which roads its adjacent to etc.

Explaining maps in detail could be difficult.

SVG, when supported, may help various users with maps. Low vision users
will be able to zoom or enlarge maps without loss in image quality,
because these are vector graphics. Text and map features on bmp type
images(jpg,jpeg, etc..)will blur when enlarged, and may become unusable
at needed levels of enlargement. Text can actually be embedded in the
SVG graphic and delivered as text content.

Yes you need to provide an Alt and value for that image. For the user
who cannot see it... they know there is a map, and maybe they would like
to print it up for someone who may take them to the destination, or make
others aware of the map on that page?

alt="map showing Location of ... "
alt="map of .... area"


holly
good work and it is great to see that you made that conversion.



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