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Re: Accessibility suggestions for some web pages?

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From: Terrence Wood
Date: May 11, 2005 3:04PM

Hi,

The accesskeys work fine for me (macos x), of course you still have the issue of accesskeys being invisible in a visual browser, although the use of the title attribute goes some way towards addressing that.

Replace the graphic buttons (help and quit) with text so they can be resized. Supply the icons via CSS -- background: url('foo.gif');

Examine your page with your default font set at different sizes... how well do you think the navigation works with the text is zoomed to 200%?

Instead of instructional text to "click the forward arrow above" why not just include a link? "forward arrow" refers to the visual representation of a link and there is not a link called "forward arrow" on your page. In any case it requires extra work to get to the link to which you refer.

HTH

Terrence Wood

On 12 May 2005, at 2:47 AM, Peter Blair wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> I'm trying to develop some interactive pages that meet the requirements of
> Section 508. Two sample pages are located at:
> http://www.plblair.net/508/module/index.htm
>
> I know that the "Quit" and "Help" buttons do not work. The "Next" button on
> the Cleaning Features page is also broken. What I want to determine is whether
> or not the two pages can be used with a keyboard and what you would do to make
> the page more accessible.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter
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