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From: "Steven C. Perkins" <>
Subject: RE: [DNA] Complicated Websites
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 14:22:16 -0500
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One thing to keep in mind is the accessibility of your website to persons
with bad eyesite or blind or with dyslexia, etc. You can take your website
URL and insert it in the HTML code test form at http://validator.w3.org/ to
see if your code meets the W3 web standards. If you use CSS to style your
pages, there is a link to the CSS validator on the result
page. Corrections can be made to your html code with HTML-TIDY.

You can also test your code at Cynthia Says and other sites to see if it
meets the W3 web accessibility initiative WAI I, II or III), or Sec 508
accessibility standards.

Since many of the people involved in genealogy are older than the usual web
surfer, we should keep accessibility issues in mind when coding a site.

You can see a presentation on these issues at this site:

http://intelligent-internet.info/cali/2003/xhtmlstd2.html

Regards,

Steven C. Perkins



At 12:26 PM 8/1/2005, you wrote:

> > When my husband Marshall and I sat down to create the
> > RenshawDNA website, he was adamant that the html code
> > for the files on the website be as clean as possible.
> > Marshall reminded me that not everyone has a highspeed
> > internet connection and that redundant code would slow
>
>This is drifting a bit off topic, for which I'm sure we'll get read the riot
>act by our ever-lovin' moderator, but I'd like to add a second caveat.
>Don't assume that everybody is running Internet Exploder. I do some
>webmastering here (including for a Sons of Union Veterans website), and I
>also keep a Nutscape and a Firefox around to test with, in addition to IE
>and Opera (which I use sort of interchangeably). This is especially
>important if you use one of the WYSIWYG website authoring packages (which I
>don't), since several of them produce incomplete or non-standard HTML which
>may be compatible with IE but will misbehave or even break under other
>browsers.
>
>Glen
>
>
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