[thelist] Site advice please

William Adamsen williamadamsen at yahoo.com
Mon Dec 23 08:40:01 CST 2002


A run through Bobby for "accessibility issues" is
revealing.  Tuning for Section 508 may not be a
requirement but many of the practices are also just
plain "good programming."  Also, as an HR related
site, meeting 508 requirements is good marketing if
not practice.

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--- "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat at operamail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 19:07:04 -0800, Pat Meeks
> <pmeeks at msn.com> wrote:
>
> >> www.ecexecutivesearch.com
> >
> > This is purely a personal opinion, but I really
> don't care for the photo
> > of a woman's crossed legs. To me, it's just a
> strange crop and doesn't
> > seem to have anything to do with what the company
> does.
>
> I'd agree with that, although the other images seem
> fairly abstract too.
>
> There are a few missing ALT tags on some of the
> images.  The ALT tag should
> not just describe the image but the function of the
> image.  You did well to
> include an ALT="" in most places
>
> There's no content-type, you should add something
> like
>
> 	<meta http-equiv="content-type"
> content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"
> />
>
> and then be sure to validate it.  That will let you
> see that there are a
> few other mistakes, such as re-using the same ID on
> the same page
>
> 	<a href="index.html" id="navbar"
>
> you can't have more than one 'id="navbar" on the
> page
>
>
> There are a couple other points... no ABBR around
> 'CV'
>
> Inline CSS (<div style=) that don't really take
> advantage of the power of
> CSS to be separated from the content
>
> 'class="top"' describes the location, not the
> function... what happens if
> you decide you want to move it somewhere else?  You
> have to change the name
> of your classes in the text
>
> Was the British spelling of "specialisation"
> intentional?  Either way the
> sentence needs a period: "We offer total
> specialisation and can fill all
> senior positions within the automotive industry"
> (period needed)
>
> What is a browser expected to do with something like
> <td width=""
> height=""> ??
>
> <!-- http://www.ecexecutivesearch.com/tmp.html-->
> Comments should have a
> space after the <!-- and before the -->... having
> anything before the
> DOCTYPE will send IE6/win into quirks mode, which
> may or may not be desired
> but my guess is that it was unintentional.
>
> The design is nice, but the markup is a little
> messier than I would like.
> XHTML Transitional with so much reliance on tables
> for layout isn't my
> thing.
>
>
> HTH/FWIW
>
> TjL
>
> --
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>
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