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From: Sara Heine
Date: Sep 10, 2001 7:20AM

I know I'm new to this group, but I have a question about
your new page http://www.ohiogoodwills.org/test/. If you
follow one of the links to a Location such as Akron, then
the information appears in the middle section. My question
is the information about Akron contains a link to their
homepage but following the link opens the page in a new
window. Isn't that against accessibility guidelines?
Thanks,
Sara Heine
K-State Research and Extension
www.oznet.ksu.edu
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>
> Date: 7 Sep 2001 19:23:13 -0600
> From: < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> Subject: RE: Text Only Version
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> If the page below is to be used I am impressed. It shows
that you took a
> great deal of time and effort to make it accessible and
it is very well
> done. In fact I would say "WOW"!
>
> Great Job, don t do a text only page, this one is
terrific!
>
> I ran the page at http://www.ohiogoodwills.org/test/
through the WAVE
> and
> it looks great!
>
> Take care and continue the great work....forget the text
only page, you
> don
> t need it in my opinion.
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Mike Burks
> Webmaster and Public Information Officer
> www.icdri.org
>
> - -----Original Message-----
> From: WebAIM forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
On Behalf Of
> Ben Caldwell
> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 6:28 PM
> To: 'WebAIM forum'
> Subject: RE: Text Only Version
>
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> Out of curiosity, was there a particular accessibility
reason you decided
> to
> go with an alternative text only page? I didn't see
anything out of the
> ordinary at http://www.ohiogoodwills.org/test/ that would
lead me to
> believe
> text-only would be necessary to ensure accessibility.
Unless dynamically
> updated when the default version of a page changes, text-
only pages are
> often neglected over time and are time consuming to
create and maintain.
>
> For more information on this topic, see
> http://www.w3.org/1999/05/WCAG-REC-fact#text.
>
> On another note, in skimming through the code on the
graphics page, I
> noticed that you use the words "image" and "link" in many
of your alt
> attributes. Most screen readers announce both
automatically (in some
> cases
> audio cues like a change in voice or pitch are used to
indicate that you
> are
> on a link), so use of these words in the alt attributes
is not necessary.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> - -Ben
>
> - --
> Ben Caldwell - Web/Information Specialist
> Trace Research & Development Center
> email: mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> |
http://www.trace.wisc.edu/
> Tel: 608.265.2064 | Fax: 608.262.8848 | TTY: 608.263.5408
>
> - -----Original Message-----
> From: WebAIM forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
On Behalf Of
> Michael Goddard
> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 8:07 AM
> To: WebAIM forum
> Subject: Re: Text Only Version
>
> Thank you both Beth and Lisa for your suggestions. I
have did some
> changes
> to the headers (no underlines) and added some color and
depth to the
> horizontal rules which will hopefully stand out a bit
better.
>
> Thank you once again for your suggestions and time.
>
> Michael
> - ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cohen, Lisa A." < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> To: "'WebAIM forum'" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 12:02 PM
> Subject: RE: Text Only Version
>
>
> > Hi Michael,
> >
> > Just one opinion - I think it looks pretty good, and
those colors
> (which
> are
> > fairly high contrast) seem fine.
> >
> > One thing I wondered though: Do you think you might
use a wider
> underbar
> > under your headers, to help differentiate (I was
thinking of a user
> with
> low
> > vision using magnification) between simple underlines
and hot links?
> >
> > Lisa
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Michael Goddard [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
> > Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 11:44 AM
> > To: WebAIM forum
> > Subject: Text Only Version
> >
> >
> > I am creating a text-only version of a web site and I
am wondering if I
> > should use colors within the headers or should I just
keep everything
> simply
> > black and white?
> >
> > Here is a sample that I am working on...
> > http://www.ohiogoodwills.org/test/index_txt.html
> >
> > This is basically my first attempt in creating a text
only version and
> > wanted to at least differentiate headings etc..
> >
> > Thank you for any input and suggestions.
> >
> > Michael
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