[Accessibility_sig] PHP Accessibility - LINK!

[Jean Shepherd]

Many thanks!  I'll try this locally and pass it along to the designer.
- Jean

At 10:33 AM 9/26/2006, you wrote:
>Jean,
>
>Try this for the second issue you mentioned.
>
>CSS
>a.nav1 {
>display: block;
>      width: 152px;
>      height: 60px;
>      background: #FFF url(images/who_we_are_full.gif);}
>
>This first specifies a color for the background in the event the 
>image doesn't load.  You can choose whatever color is 
>desired.  Because the "-image" is removed from the code, the 
>background will not be viewed by Jaws as an image and it should not 
>speak "graphic".
>
>I would also recommend changing the color of the links on 
>rollover.  The color that they currently change to blends with the 
>background color and makes it difficult to read the text in the 
>link.  A good source for accessibility and color contrast is 
><http://gmazzocato.altervista.org/colorwheel/wheel.php>http://gmazzocato.altervista.org/colorwheel/wheel.php
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>James Risk
>Center for Excellence in Disabilities (CED)
>West Virginia University
>Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center
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>Morgantown, WV 26505
>(304) 293-4692 ext. 1153
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> >>> <jean at jeanesweb.com> 9/26/2006 12:03 PM >>>
>Sorry - forgot the link with my initial posting:
><http://www.jointaffinitygroups.org/dev/>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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