[Accessibility_sig] PHP Accessibility - LINK!

[Karl Groves]

Jean - 

The site being driven by PHP has no bearing upon the accessibility.
PHP may (or may not) be being used to output the HTML, but regardless, the
end result is the HTML and that's what you need to address.


Karl Groves
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: jean at jeanesweb.com [mailto:jean at jeanesweb.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 12:03 PM
> To: accessibility_sig at knowbility.org
> Subject: [Accessibility_sig] PHP Accessibility - LINK!
> 
> 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
> 
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