Compliance help, please

Have just uploaded new versions of the following sites:

www.lanebaldwin.com

www.laneonbass.com

I have cleaned up the code as best as I can and have placed ALT attributes
on all graphics. Would appreciate any feedback wrt accessibility compliance.
Of special concern to me are www.laneonbass.com/pixRT.htm and
www.laneonbass.com/pixSS.htm. These two pages have thumbnails of two of my
instruments. Each thumbnail links to a full-size jpg that opens in a new
browser window. I'm not sure if the ALT attributes I've used are correct.

Also, I remember seeing links to web sites that will validate code, as well
as accessibility. Could someone please post those links again? This time,
I'll save them!!

Thanks in advance for all replies...

Lane

Hi Lane,
You should include a DTD (DocType) Declaration in all your documents.
You "should" use "title" in your links and you should not use "height" as a
table attribute.

The W3C validator is here:
http://validator.w3.org

Better, you could download Firefox
(http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/) and install the "web developer
extension" (you'll have access to a few valuable tools).

HTH,
Thierry

Lane Baldwin wrote:

Have just uploaded new versions of the following sites:

www.lanebaldwin.com

www.laneonbass.com

"Lane Baldwin" <lane (AT) NOlanebaldwinSPAM (DOT) com> wrote

Have just uploaded new versions of the following sites:

www.lanebaldwin.com

www.laneonbass.com

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.laneonbass.com%2FpixRT. htm

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.laneonbass.com%2FpixSS. htm

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lanebaldwin.com%2F

Almost there Lane.

FWIW, well done.
Terry

"Lane Baldwin" <lane (AT) NOlanebaldwinSPAM (DOT) com> wrote

Have just uploaded new versions of the following sites:

www.lanebaldwin.com

www.laneonbass.com

I have cleaned up the code as best as I can and have placed ALT attributes
on all graphics. Would appreciate any feedback wrt accessibility
compliance.
Of special concern to me are www.laneonbass.com/pixRT.htm and
www.laneonbass.com/pixSS.htm. These two pages have thumbnails of two of my
instruments. Each thumbnail links to a full-size jpg that opens in a new
browser window. I'm not sure if the ALT attributes I've used are correct.

Also, I remember seeing links to web sites that will validate code, as
well
as accessibility. Could someone please post those links again? This time,
I'll save them!!

Thanks in advance for all replies...

Lane

Here's another one

http://bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/html/en/index.jsp

Quick suggestion
Remove the absolute widths from the tables and use % instead. This should
stop the horizontal scrolling on 800 X 600.

Terry

On 26 Jun 2004 in macromedia.dreamweaver, Lane Baldwin wrote:

Also, I remember seeing links to web sites that will validate code,
as well as accessibility. Could someone please post those links
again? This time, I'll save them!!

In addition to the advice you've already received (and I absolutely agree
with thenovice about getting FireFox and the Web Developer extension),
get a copy of Lynx (text mode browser). This will give you some idea how
your site looks to those using assistive devices, as well as how it looks
to search engines.

Go to http://browsers.evolt.org/ to find links to download just about any
browser which has ever made a GET request of a web host.

--
Joe Makowiec
http://makowiec.net/
Email: http://makowiec.net/email.php

On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 10:10:01 +0000 (UTC), Joe Makowiec
<makowiec (AT) nycap (DOT) rEMOVECAPSr.com> wrote:

get a copy of Lynx (text mode browser). This will give you some idea how
your site looks to those using assistive devices, as well as how it looks
to search engines.

Opera also has a "Emulate text browser" mode.


Gary

Gary White wrote:

On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 10:10:01 +0000 (UTC), Joe Makowiec
makowiec (AT) nycap (DOT) rEMOVECAPSr.com> wrote:

get a copy of Lynx (text mode browser). This will give you some
idea how your site looks to those using assistive devices, as well
as how it looks to search engines.

Guys:
I haven't thought about installing Opera, is this compatible with XP Pro,
already running IE6 and FF 0.8?

What other browsers are worth having for checking purposes?

Nadia

On 27 Jun 2004 in macromedia.dreamweaver, :. Nadia .: wrote:

What other browsers are worth having for checking purposes?

Probably NN4.x, IE 5.5, IE 6, some Moz-based (NN7, FF x), and if you can
swing it, IE and Safari on a Mac. And even though AOL/Win uses IE from
the current installation, sometimes it can display things differently
than IE does.

However... The answer to your question really lies in your server logs
if the site is already online. Look at them and see how many of what
browsers are hitting the site, and that will give you some idea what to
test in. For example, my web dev site gets more hits with FireFox than
any other sites I track.

--
Joe Makowiec
http://makowiec.net/
Email: http://makowiec.net/email.php

Hi Nadia,
This is a way to run multiple version of IE on the same Win PC
http://www.insert-title.com/web_design/?page=articles/dev/multi_IE

For testing pupose (CC), be *aware* that they all send the identification
string that corresponds to the more recent version installed.

Opera 6 is pretty "buggy" so it's good to have it (if it works in v6 it
should work in v7).

HTH,
Thierry

:. Nadia .: wrote:

Gary White wrote:
On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 10:10:01 +0000 (UTC), Joe Makowiec
makowiec (AT) nycap (DOT) rEMOVECAPSr.com> wrote:

Thanks, Terry....for the feedback and the links...

Lane

"thenovice" <terryuse (AT) btopenworld (DOT) spam.com> wrote

"Lane Baldwin" <lane (AT) NOlanebaldwinSPAM (DOT) com> wrote in message
news:kirDc.60$Xn4.101341 (AT) news (DOT) uswest.net...
Have just uploaded new versions of the following sites:

www.lanebaldwin.com

www.laneonbass.com


http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.laneonbass.com%2FpixRT. htm


http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.laneonbass.com%2FpixSS. htm

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lanebaldwin.com%2F

Almost there Lane.

FWIW, well done.
Terry