[Accessibility_sig] PHP Accessibility - LINK!

[jean at jeanesweb.com]

Sorry - forgot the link with my initial posting:
http://www.jointaffinitygroups.org/dev/

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. 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