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Re: Final year project

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From: Eoin Campbell
Date: Oct 19, 2004 4:16AM

A problem I have come across recently might be a good FYP
for you. We use PHP to develop web applications, and use
a public PHP library to create forms.
cf. http://pear.php.net/package/HTML_QuickForm

Unfortunately, the module uses HTML tables for layout, and
doesn't really make much effort at accessibility.
It would be nice if it could use fieldset/legend to group
related fields, for example.

Perhaps you could take a look at the module, and develop
an equivalent, but more accessible version, that also
generated valid XHTML 1.0 Strict code.

There are also lots of other PHP modules at pear.php.net
which probably have the same problems, so you could choose
another one instead or as well if you preferred, e.g. HTML_Table.


At 10:00 15/10/2004, <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote:

>I am currently in my 3rd and final year at
>university and have to think of a final year project!!
>
>Accessibility and the web is something I am
>interested in, and would like to base my project on it.
>
>The project will have to take around 8 months, which
>will allow time for research etc..
>
>Does anyone have any ideas for a project? Ideally my
>deliverables would consist of a report and a web application of some sort.

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