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From: Kevin Murphy
Date: Fri, Jul 13 2007 10:50AM
Subject: Page Check Please (Calendar)
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Hello all,

I'm in progress of writing this calendar (I figured it was easier to
write my own than trying to get any existing calendar to talk to my
mainframe system...). I was wondering if you could check this page at
this point in the progress and tell me if there is anything else I
can do to make it more accessible.

http://www.wnc.edu/cal/

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Kevin Murphy
Webmaster: Information and Marketing Services
Western Nevada College
www.wnc.edu
775-445-3326

P.S. Please note that my e-mail and website address have changed from
wncc.edu to wnc.edu.

From: Tim Beadle
Date: Mon, Jul 16 2007 3:30AM
Subject: Re: Page Check Please (Calendar)
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On 13/07/07, Kevin Murphy < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> I'm in progress of writing this calendar (I figured it was easier to
> write my own than trying to get any existing calendar to talk to my
> mainframe system...).

A slightly tangential thought: if you'd written a standard API (e.g.
iCalendar) to your mainframe data, your users could use any
iCalendar-supporting application, e.g. Apple iCal, Google Calendar,
Mozilla Calendar/Sunbird and even the latest version of Outlook.

See here for more about iCalendar:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar

Best regards,

Tim

From: Keith Parks
Date: Mon, Jul 16 2007 10:10AM
Subject: Re: Page Check Please (Calendar)
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On Jul 13, 2007, at 9:47 AM, Kevin Murphy wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I'm in progress of writing this calendar (I figured it was easier to
> write my own than trying to get any existing calendar to talk to my
> mainframe system...). I was wondering if you could check this page at
> this point in the progress and tell me if there is anything else I
> can do to make it more accessible.
>
> http://www.wnc.edu/cal/
>

I noticed one little thing. In the document structure, you have
"Western Nevada College" as a <h1> and then "Calendar for July, 2007"
as an <h3>, thus skipping over the <h2> level. Seems like "Calendar
for ..." should be an <h2>.

And since you are organizing it in the rows/columns format, it
*might* make sense to have the "Week" designations then be <h3>s.

HTH,

Keith


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Student Affairs Communications Services
San Diego State University
San Diego, CA 92182-7444

(619) 594-1046

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From: Andy Mabbett
Date: Mon, Jul 16 2007 11:30AM
Subject: Re: Page Check Please (Calendar)
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In message < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >,
Tim Beadle < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > writes

>On 13/07/07, Kevin Murphy < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
>> I'm in progress of writing this calendar (I figured it was easier to
>> write my own than trying to get any existing calendar to talk to my
>> mainframe system...).
>
>A slightly tangential thought: if you'd written a standard API (e.g.
>iCalendar) to your mainframe data, your users could use any iCalendar-
>supporting application, e.g. Apple iCal, Google Calendar, Mozilla
>Calendar/Sunbird and even the latest version of Outlook.
>
>See here for more about iCalendar:
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar

Again, not really an accessibility matter, but you could make it
understand and output the hCalendar microformat:

<http://microformats.org/wiki/hcalendar>;

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HCalendar>;

--
Andy Mabbett

* Are you using Microformats, yet: <http://microformats.org/>; ?

From: Tim Beadle
Date: Mon, Jul 16 2007 1:40PM
Subject: Re: Page Check Please (Calendar)
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On 16/07/07, Andy Mabbett < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> Again, not really an accessibility matter, but you could make it
> understand and output the hCalendar microformat:
>
> <http://microformats.org/wiki/hcalendar>;
>
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HCalendar>;

Good idea. Just don't use the abbr design pattern ;)

Tim