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From: Helen A
Date: Jan 6, 2006 5:00AM

An offshoot of the campaigning section of Scope
(www.scope.org.uk) launched a campaign to get
illustrations of disabled kids into picture books
yesterday and I had a look and the email below is the result!

Btw the files referred to below are online at
http://users.powernet.co.uk/tanquen/suggestion.htm
and
http://users.powernet.co.uk/tanquen/inthepicture.jpg
in case anyone wants to see what I sent.

>Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 10:01:49 +0000
>To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
>From: HAA < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>Subject: flaws in the design of the In the Picture website
>
>I have just visited the website
><http://www.inthepicture.org.uk/>;www.inthepicture.org.uk
>having heard of it on a small discussion group.
>While I totally agree with the goals of the
>campaign I do have problems with the physical markup of the site.
>
>The 'Back to Top' links are in tables which have
>been placed between paragraphs (without being in
>a paragraph of their own). This leads to text
>from the paragraph below the link wrapping round
>the right-aligned table to give the following
>literal left-to-right reading (exampe taken from
><http://www.childreninthepicture.org.uk/au_illustrateview.htm>;www<http://www.childreninthepicture.org.uk/au_illustrateview.htm>;.childreninthepicture.org.uk/au_illustrateview.htm
>but could come from any page):
>
>So what are the problems? Why do my Back to Top
>attempts so often stumble at the first hurdle? And
>what can we do to change things?
>
>I have removed the formatting (bold and
>hyperlinks) from the example above, but the
>accompanying graphic, inthepicture.jpg, shows
>the same paragraph in place on the website. Now
>I do not have any problems with reading or
>comprehension but the first time I encountered
>this problem I had to re-read it in order to
>work out what was wrong. At first I thought it
>might be linked to the size of my monitor
>display (800x600) so I resized my screen size to
>1024x768 but the problem persisted. I then
>opened the code to find the following code:
>
> <!-- #BeginLibraryItem "/Library/backtotop.lbi" -->
> <table width="10%" border="0"
> align="right" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="back to top">
> <tr>
> <td><img
> src="images/totop.gif" alt="top" width="15" height="13"></td>
> <td nowrap><p><a
> href="#top">Back to Top </a></p></td>
> </tr>
> </table>
> <!-- #EndLibraryItem -->
> <p><strong>So what are the problems?
> Why do my attempts so often stumble at the
> first hurdle? And what can we do to change things?</strong></p>
>
>Ignoring the template comment markup, <!--
>#BeginLibraryItem "/Library/backtotop.lbi" -->
>