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Enigma121

  • #3
    Well to be fair, the home page passes the automated WAI Level 1 accessibility checks. So I'm sure by some stretch of the imagination they feel they have done enough.

    It shows that when it comes to accessiblity you can't buy a tool, wave a magic wand and sort your site out. When it comes down to it you need to hire a professional to ensure compliance.
     
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    vigo

  • #5
    I don't have time to do a full assesment of the site but from my two minute look of the source it appears to comply with WCAG-A (but not WCAG-AA because it uses tables for layout).

    Two things Mark:
    There are no such thing as "alt tags" - they are "alt attributes", and;
    Having a tooltip popup when the mouse cursor is moved over an image with an alt attribute is a behavious of MSIE and is against the HTML specification - a tooltip is appropriate if the image has a title attribute though.

    Always good to hold people to high standards :)

    Nath
     
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    vigo

  • #7
    Keeping in the spirit of the thread, here's controvesial: Level 3 accessibility (WCAG-AAA) is impossible to achieve.

    Good to aim for, and I think content & website providers should forfill as many checkpoints from Level 3 as possible, but impossible in reality.
     
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