Comments on: The Road to Section 508 http://kennsarah.net/2003/08/23/the-road-to-section-508/ “...and every time she sneezes, I believe it's love... ” Mon, 26 Sep 2011 04:37:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jai http://kennsarah.net/2003/08/23/the-road-to-section-508/comment-page-1/#comment-631 Jai Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.kennsarah.net/?p=705#comment-631 Go Ken! You oughta ask Nic Steenhout to take a peruse through your site just to give you a relevant perspective! That guy's pretty cool and knowledgeable about this kinda stuff. Plus, I think his dog will like the pictures of Sasha ;) Go Ken! You oughta ask Nic Steenhout to take a peruse through your site just to give you a relevant perspective! That guy’s pretty cool and knowledgeable about this kinda stuff. Plus, I think his dog will like the pictures of Sasha ;)

]]> By: Jai http://kennsarah.net/2003/08/23/the-road-to-section-508/comment-page-1/#comment-632 Jai Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.kennsarah.net/?p=705#comment-632 Oh, and by the way Ken, if you place this code as your Comment Link (in the template) you will probably pass Bobby AA: <a href=" <$MTEntryPermalink$>#comments" title="<$MTEntryTitle$>"> This way every link with the phrase "comments" will have a unique title attribute. See if that works after rebuild. Oh, and by the way Ken, if you place this code as your Comment Link (in the template) you will probably pass Bobby AA:

<a href=” <$MTEntryPermalink$>#comments” title=”<$MTEntryTitle$>”>

This way every link with the phrase “comments” will have a unique title attribute. See if that works after rebuild.

]]> By: Ken Walker http://kennsarah.net/2003/08/23/the-road-to-section-508/comment-page-1/#comment-633 Ken Walker Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.kennsarah.net/?p=705#comment-633 Jai, I've already done this--it doesn't help: "The 'Bobby' validator would seem to imply that changing the title attribute of the offending <a> tag would solve the problem, but it didn't." See the Jukka Korpela link for more discussion. Jai, I’ve already done this–it doesn’t help: “The ‘Bobby’ validator would seem to imply that changing the title attribute of the offending <a> tag would solve the problem, but it didn’t.”

See the Jukka Korpela link for more discussion.

]]> By: Jai http://kennsarah.net/2003/08/23/the-road-to-section-508/comment-page-1/#comment-634 Jai Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.kennsarah.net/?p=705#comment-634 Hmm... odd. I read that, then I went and checked the comments links on the front page and all the tool tips were comming up "comments". After I posted my comment, then they all came up with unique title attributes. It was like the twilight zone. But I wonder if what I was seeing prior to my commnt is what Bobby is seeing... I dunno. It's all weird to me. I still find it cool though, that you got 508 and Bobby A compliance. I got bored here at work and made the "Dynamic Banners" ( http://www.jaiandbecky.com/?blog=dy ) version of my site XHTML validable. Yeah, it has tables, but validation is just such a nice feeling of accomplishment, isn't it? I wish I could make simple pages look as nice as you do. I looked at the Templates page and was so impressed by the simplicity and elegance. You're the real deal K! Hmm… odd. I read that, then I went and checked the comments links on the front page and all the tool tips were comming up “comments”. After I posted my comment, then they all came up with unique title attributes. It was like the twilight zone. But I wonder if what I was seeing prior to my commnt is what Bobby is seeing… I dunno. It’s all weird to me. I still find it cool though, that you got 508 and Bobby A compliance. I got bored here at work and made the “Dynamic Banners” ( http://www.jaiandbecky.com/?blog=dy ) version of my site XHTML validable. Yeah, it has tables, but validation is just such a nice feeling of accomplishment, isn’t it?

I wish I could make simple pages look as nice as you do. I looked at the Templates page and was so impressed by the simplicity and elegance. You’re the real deal K!

]]> By: Ken Walker http://kennsarah.net/2003/08/23/the-road-to-section-508/comment-page-1/#comment-635 Ken Walker Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.kennsarah.net/?p=705#comment-635 “Yeah, it has tables, but validation is just such a nice feeling of accomplishment, isnt it?”

Sure does! I wish that accessibility was so easy. There’s something to be said for the quick postitive-feedback loop that validators provide. They let you know that what you’re doing is good and encourage you to keep going. :)

The Eclipse IDE project http://www.eclipse.org/ from what I read, lets you write “unit tests” for your code while you’re programming. They effectively act as a code validator for whatever language you’re working in. So long as your code passes your tests, a little green “light” icon stays in your status bar. If you break something, it turns red.

I wish everything in life came with a validator icon. ;-)

]]> By: Jai http://kennsarah.net/2003/08/23/the-road-to-section-508/comment-page-1/#comment-636 Jai Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.kennsarah.net/?p=705#comment-636 Yeah, the W3C validators are nice (when you get the hang of 'em), but those accessability ones are too vague and not black and white enough for me. They shouldn't match suggestions in the midst of technical validation (IE "you should do this if your website could do this, but if not,don't worry about it" should be separtated from "you don't have alt tags, fix it"). That Eclipse project looks VERY cool. Yeah, the W3C validators are nice (when you get the hang of ‘em), but those accessability ones are too vague and not black and white enough for me. They shouldn’t match suggestions in the midst of technical validation (IE “you should do this if your website could do this, but if not,don’t worry about it” should be separtated from “you don’t have alt tags, fix it”). That Eclipse project looks VERY cool.

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