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Re: An attempt at an accessible web site...Please review

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From: Chris Heilmann
Date: Oct 6, 2004 8:32AM


> Hi Everyone,
> I would greatly appreciate any comments or suggestions with regard this
> web
> site...._http://wdom.org/_ (http://wdom.org/)
> This is my first attempt at an accessible web site and just wanted some
> input as to how I did?...If it needs any changes...
> Thanks,

Oh, I just checked the code :-)

It would be a lot better to create a clean, semantically logical markup
than using tables for layout. Your sneaky way around the "other separator
than whitespace" in the navigation links by adding spans and BRs around
them would be better as a list, then it is also more obvious for people
without CSS what the navigation is.
Nested tables might be hard to navigate, and with a layout that easy, you
can use a CSS template instead.
On the staff board page you have a nice example for a data table, which
needs scopes or ID/headers pairs to become accessible. Instead of the

<td colspan="3" valign="middle" bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
class="sectiontitle">Staff


tagsoup, a simple

Staff

would have done the trick.

When creating accessible web sites what is happening "under the hood" -
the HTML structure - is as important as what is shown.

HTH
Chris


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Chris Heilmann
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