Catching up on Weblog Accessibility:
- Day 11: I already have my content first. What I should do here is provide the opportunity to jump to the links.
- Day 12: This site has been checked using Vischeck. Since I use color so infrequently, and it never conveys meaning in and of itself, my site passes with flying, um, colors. Of minor concern, the shading around the current day in the calendar looks like a black box with black type (meaning unreadable) in all 3 tests. I will change this when I feel comfortable mucking around that part of Radio. I say it is minor, because the layout of a calendar provides other clues as to exactly what is obscured. Update: fixed by just having a border for emphasis.
- Day 13: No links are faked by using "javascript:" as the href value in any of my templates.
- Day 14: This is the first tip that requires day-in, day-out rigor in applying. To date all the tips concerned set up of templates and overall design. I used to provide titles, but got lazy and stopped. It is work, but if you want to produce something worth reading, it's worth it to do it right.
That last tip has me thinking - I seem to recall that screen readers allow just the links to be read. That probably means that choosing which words actually contain the link is important. For example, my post last week covering Mark's tips had as a link the word "Today's". Not very helpful - instead it probably should have been, at a minimum, "Today's accessibility tip". Hmmm...I wonder if this is a future tip from Mark?
7:24:04 PM
In this case, vischeck is completely wrong. As a (very) colorblind person, I can tell you that to me your calender has blue text with a white background in a green (?) box..
Phil
Your description of how it looks is exactly on. My description was probably faulty - I meant to speak specifically about the way the current day on the calendar was laid out. Before I made a change, the current day had a gray background. Since the text is black, whenever I used Vischeck, it looked black-on-black - completely unreadable. Hopefully now that the current day has a border around it instead of a background color, it's readable.
I would be interested in knowing if you do have any problems reading the weblog. The only part that I'm guessing could throw people is the black text on the background which I use for the section and daily headings.
Thanks for taking a look!
Bill Simoni
You're way ahead of me. ;-)
Mark Pilgrim