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Frames and Accessibility

Wednesday, November 23, 2005

What there is to know about HTML Framesets and Accessibility, and the old question "should I use frames?" I say no!

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If you must use frames, here some good code to help:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Business Documents Library</title>
</head>

<frameset cols="20%, 80%" title="Business Documents Library">
<frame src="nav.html" title="Navigation" name="nav">
<frame src="doc.html" title="Documents" name="docs">

<noframes>
<h1>Library of Business Documents</h1>
<p><a href="noframesmenu.html">View a list of business documents</a></p>
</noframes>

</frameset>
</html>

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posted by Dennis Lembree at 10:52 PM   1 comments

Where Are We?

Sunday, November 20, 2005

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posted by Dennis Lembree at 9:35 AM   0 comments

Text, text, text!

Wednesday, November 09, 2005

Topics include proper use of HTML tags, such as headings, quotes, lists, and some lesser-known tags, such as <code> and <address>.

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Code:

<h1>My Web Page</h1>
not
<p><font size="5"><strong>My Web Page</strong></font></p>

<p>I <strong>really</strong> like tacos.</p>
not
<p>I <b>really</b> like tacos.</p>

<p>As <cite>Harry S. Truman</cite> said, <q lang="en-us">The buck stops here.</q></p>

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posted by Dennis Lembree at 7:14 PM   3 comments

Unobtrusive Javacript (and the DOM)

Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Ah, Javascript. The wonderful scripting language that creates lots of cool stuff on your web page. But how do you make it Accessible?

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This is an example of a javascript "listener" which opens a link in a new window (using a function) if the rel in the a tag is "external".

window.onload=function(){
setOnClick();
}

function setOnClick() {
if(!document.getElementsByTagName) {
return;
}
var anchors = document.getElementsByTagName("a");
for (var i=anchors.length; i !=0; i--) {
var a=anchors[i-1];
if (a.rel.indexOf("external") != -1) {
a.onclick = function(){newWin(this.href,'popup1',700,400);
return false;}
}
}

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posted by Dennis Lembree at 9:28 AM   3 comments

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