Accessibility and Standards Compliance
Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 7:26 am
I second the need for standards compliance and accessibility to be upmost for the next version.
1 .Certainly adding some optional descriptive titles, optional access key, optional tab index (maybe not always required if you use a proper document flow and a browser that understands it?) etc. to the menus would be ideal - this could then be used in other menus. So you could end up with something like:
Home
descriptive title: could default to page title or menu if none given.
accesskey: default to none if none given (there are loads of problems using access keys - so an option)
tabindex: default to 0 ? (need to check out how this works in differing browser) if not given. Maybe would need to be not ncluded if not given?
2. Optional (and optional traget) skip links for main and possibly sub menus. e.g for a top menu
Skip navigation......
Where hide is a class for hiding it if required and #content if the link it will jump to - usually contents but could be something different depending on your source order. See also:
http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... 769.0.html
2. As a minimum for use in the headers :
They are also ones for section, subsection, glossary, start etc. that maybe useful?
CMS Self link maybe able todo this if it can read all modules, currently it cannot seem to read Cataloger items? See also:
http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... 795.0.html
I've modified a very old version of CMS self link to try and get this to work but it fails with the above 'Cataloger' pages - in any event I'm not so hot on this sort of code and i would probably be better if the newest CMS_self link were adapted or that a different version created for this task. [file attached: function.cms_linkrelhead.php] It does however work upto this point, could do with a better name though
3. A proper search which provides a search on everything, including modules and that is accessible.
4. A simpe image plugin or module which effectively allows you to click on a thumbnail and open it in an other page with classes for CSS. My children would love this. Kind of a post and view in another page scenario - perhaps with some other data fields? I know Cataloger does this but see problem above.
No one who writes proper accessible web sites can do without head and footer previous and next links and the menu stuff given above
Feel free to add stuff if I've missed anything out or got something wrong
Hope this helps,
Russ
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1 .Certainly adding some optional descriptive titles, optional access key, optional tab index (maybe not always required if you use a proper document flow and a browser that understands it?) etc. to the menus would be ideal - this could then be used in other menus. So you could end up with something like:
Home
descriptive title: could default to page title or menu if none given.
accesskey: default to none if none given (there are loads of problems using access keys - so an option)
tabindex: default to 0 ? (need to check out how this works in differing browser) if not given. Maybe would need to be not ncluded if not given?
2. Optional (and optional traget) skip links for main and possibly sub menus. e.g for a top menu
Skip navigation......
Where hide is a class for hiding it if required and #content if the link it will jump to - usually contents but could be something different depending on your source order. See also:
http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... 769.0.html
2. As a minimum for use in the headers :
They are also ones for section, subsection, glossary, start etc. that maybe useful?
CMS Self link maybe able todo this if it can read all modules, currently it cannot seem to read Cataloger items? See also:
http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... 795.0.html
I've modified a very old version of CMS self link to try and get this to work but it fails with the above 'Cataloger' pages - in any event I'm not so hot on this sort of code and i would probably be better if the newest CMS_self link were adapted or that a different version created for this task. [file attached: function.cms_linkrelhead.php] It does however work upto this point, could do with a better name though

3. A proper search which provides a search on everything, including modules and that is accessible.
4. A simpe image plugin or module which effectively allows you to click on a thumbnail and open it in an other page with classes for CSS. My children would love this. Kind of a post and view in another page scenario - perhaps with some other data fields? I know Cataloger does this but see problem above.
No one who writes proper accessible web sites can do without head and footer previous and next links and the menu stuff given above

Feel free to add stuff if I've missed anything out or got something wrong

Hope this helps,
Russ
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