Re: accessible library template

by "Rajnish Bhaskar" <r.bhaskar(at)compserv.gla.ac.uk>

Date:	Wed, 28 Aug 2002 16:06:00 +0100
To:	mr ian scott ferguson <ian.ferguson(at)strath.ac.uk>, hwg-critique(at)hwg.org
In-Reply-To:	ac
	todo: View Thread, Original

Hi Ian,

> http://www.lib.strath.ac.uk/ian/andtemplate.htm
> 
> in terms of accessibility issues I'd be very grateful.

Well, it passes the "Lynx" test.  I looked at it in Lynx and it's 
nice and easy to both read and navigate in a text-based browser.

You seem to have some random things in your code (there's a useless 
FONT tag that doesn't seem to do anything).  In fact, you shouldn't 
be using font tags at all (that's what CSS is all about).

> but I'd be very grateful for any personal opinions and whether you
> think it would validate with 'Bobby' for Priority 1 compliance.

I take it that you've already run it through Bobby and have seen the 
results?  The only things that I might suggest are giving descriptive 
labels to the images, rather than just alt="*".
Also, you don't have any <html> tags as the root of the page.  I'm 
not sure why it passes validation, but you should add something like 
<html lang="en"> at the top of the page (just under the doctype) and 
the last line of the document should be </html>.

Um, other than that, it looks nice.

Raj.

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