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From: James Smith
Date: Thu, Oct 14 2004 3:42AM
Subject: Final year project
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HI

Im new to this board!!

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.



Any help would be great!!

Cheers

James

From: Hall, Kevin (K.M.)
Date: Thu, Oct 14 2004 7:50AM
Subject: Re: Final year project
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If you
want to create something really interesting and practical you could look at how
different screen readers support JavaScript and CSS and create a suite of test
cases. There has been some discussion of how little even the experts seem to
know about this so you could break some new ground and create a really useful
resource. If you managed to build a small web application that uses some
JavaScript for form validation (along with server side checks), uses JS and CSS
to show / hide content, and perform some other basic functions I think that
would qualify as a good project.



Regards,

Kevin Hall



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project



HI

Im
new to this board!!

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.

 

Any
help would be great!!

Cheers

James

From: Eoin Campbell
Date: Tue, Oct 19 2004 4:16AM
Subject: Re: Final year project
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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 ADDRESS 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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