[Accessibility_sig] PHP Accessibility

[Jean Shepherd]

Hi, all.  I've been working with an outside agency to help them 
render a new site accessible, and I need to see if I'm completely off 
track in my assessment.  (I'll provide the link in a moment for your 
feedback.)  The site is PHP-dependent, and I confess to being PHP-ignorant.

1. At my urging, they changed the JavaScript rollovers to CSS (never 
mind that they named a class "alt"!), but JAWS reads a link such as 
<a href="subpage.php?section=who" ...> phonetically: "link 
subpafphsec" instead of the expected, "link who" or "link Who We 
Are".  Dolphin's HAL ignores the navigation altogether.

2. Although the navigation's now CSS, the code points to images 
located elsewhere (bold and italics added):
Code:
<td class="nav" colspan="2"><a href="subpage.php?section=who" 
class="nav1"><span class="alt">Who We Are</span></a></td>
CSS:
a.nav1 {
         display: block;
     width: 152px;
     height: 60px;
     background-image: url(images/who_we_are_full.gif);}

Result:  JAWS reads the word "graphic" aloud.

Any thoughts on how to fix this short of total slimmed-and-trimmed 
XHTML/CSS recoding?  Many thanks!

Jean Shepherd
jean at jeanesweb.com
Jean E's Web Accessibility 
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