[thelist] Restaurant websites?

[Christian Heilmann]

Judah McAuley wrote:

> Louise Blackburn wrote:
>
>>> http://shiokfood.com/
>>>
>> Award nominated by whom? Fails HTML, CSS, 508 and WAI checks. Collects
>> personal, info, but no privacy policy, alt tags don't match images...
>
>
> When I feed the url in the W3C validator, it shows up as valid XHTML 
> 1.0 Transitional (which is what the doctype specifies). And all of the 
> images on the home page at least have correct Alt tags that are 
> descriptive and match the images.
>
Alt attributes, please don't talk about tags that don't exist. 
Especially when attacking or defending the technicalities of a web site.
And I can create a web site that bobby loves with  508 and WAI and is a 
real pain to use with real assistive technology. WAI is a wonderful 
checklist and guideline, but  fails the reality check so many times.

> As for accessibility, the page looks great in a text only browser. The 
> content is laid out well, the links and images are descriptive. As a 
> quibble, I'd try and put the navigation at the end of the html instead 
> of at the beginning, but that's not a huge deal, especialy since his 
> navigation menu is short.
>
> The only issue that comes up on a WAI check that seems to apply is 
> that links are identified only by color. If a visitor was color blind, 
> they would have problems perhaps with the link styling. It could use 
> an additional bit of context to show that they are links.
>
Yes, that is an issue, especially as most colourblind cannot distinguish 
black and red.

> >
> > but again if chefs started designing web sites.....
>
> The funny thing about this comment being that Madhu (owner of Shiok) 
> was a web developer for several years before becoming a chef :)

He also was content admin at evolt.org and is generally a very good egg.