On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 10:28:27 +1000, "Mark Parnell"
<> wrote:
>Laura Boone wrote:
>> http://www.lamardesigns.com/sandbox/Annl_Report.htm
>>
>> I would be a happy camper but that W3C validator is flagging a lot of
>> my code...and I don't like that at all !! It is flagging the
>> "attributes" I have coded on my TD's with "there is no attribute
>> xx"...
>
>That's because none of those attributes exist in HTML 4.01 - what are they
>supposed to do?
Okay, I've gone back and made some revisions.
Here's what I had:
http://www.lamardesigns.com/sandbox/Annl_Report.htm
<tr>
<td hrdc="grants category">
&n bsp;Human
Resources Development Canada</td>
<td hrdc="grants amount02" align="right">59,475</td>
<td hrdc="grants amount01" align="right">82,100</td>
</tr>
And here's the revised version:
http://www.lamardesigns.com/sandbox/Annl_Report2.htm
<tr>
<td class="indent" headers="grants category" title="Human Resources
Development Canada">Human Resources Development Canada</td>
<td headers="grants amount02" align="right">59,475</td>
<td headers="grants amount01" align="right">82,100</td>
</tr>
.....right ???....though it does seem a tad redundant, no? (maybe just
because I am fully sighted? and/or lacking a full understanding ...??)
>
>
>> My greatest concern is how this will translate to
>> screenreaders or other assistive technologies & I don't want to just
>> leave it as is.
>>
>
>Most browsers will ignore attributes that they don't understand (which is
>what they are supposed to do), so they shouldn't cause any problems, but you
>should remove them anyway, as they aren't doing anything, and are incorrect.
>
>Here is what it looks like in Lynx:
>http://www.delorie.com/web/lynxview....nnl_Report.htm
Well, now the code passes the validator and Bobby likes it too.
Lynx viewer ....well, it looks like the data without the formatting.
I don't know what I can do so that it would make sense to a text only
viewer. I guess I just am not familiar with how this can be
accommodated.
As well, I've reviewed the page with IBM Home Page Reader. Again, I
think I'm missing something. It seems to me that there should be more
"wordiness" about each field as it is being read, beyond just reading
the column headings up front. Do you know what I mean? If I simply
close my eyes and listen, I'm just hearing a bunch of names and
amounts and I've already forgotten what the column headings are. Is
there more that I should be doing in this regard?
>
>> Aside from the things that have been flagged, I have concerns about:
>>
>> - the use of a stack of in conjunction with left align - I
>> think I'm missing something elementary here. I guess this isn't
>> "wrong" per se, but cheesy nonetheless...agreed ?
>>
>
>Agreed. Perhaps something like class="foo" on those <td>s and add
>td.foo{padding-left: 2em;} (play with the value) to your stylesheet?
Exactly....I've added the style instream & will move it up to the
stylesheet when I move these reports into the full page. Thanks !
>
>> I would appreciate any constructive advice. Thanks !
>
>You have no <body> tag, and an extra </head> tag at the end of the document.
>The validator shows a couple of other errors like that, but get rid of all
>those non-existent attributes first, then you can sort out the last couple
>of errors.
>
>The semicolon in your div.right style should be inside the brackets, not
>outside.
>
>
>In a couple of places you have XHTML-style markup, e.g. <br /> - if you are
>using HTML, it should be <br>.
>
>Your headings should be marked as such, e.g. <h1>STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS
>YEAR ENDED MARCH 31, 2002</h1>.
>
>HTH
Could you please take another look and advise anew? Thanks so very
much !
Laura
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