In article Chris wrote:
Thanks, I will try this. My pages pass BOBBY Priority 1, 2 and 3 - and
work very well in Screen readers such as LYNX - they are accessible!!
Can you find this text in that image without seeing image: "Community
University of North Wales"? (it's longer but I don't bother retype more,
as text is not available as text anywhere in
http://www.bangor.ac.uk/~absc04/nwetp/dev_02.htm). So you are hiding this
text from people not viewing images. That is against A-level. Bobby
doesn't spot this as it can't know that you are using background image in
CSS for content. Exept that there is spot where it states that "Is
content accessible whitout CSS" etc, that you have to answer yourself. If
you lie to Bobby, it can't tell you truth.
But they don't work on my browser if I disable images, or use narrow
window. They are invalid, even if there is valid XHTML logo on bottom.
Lynx is not screen reader. Accessibility is not only about blind, deaf or
otherwise disabled, but for everybody else too. Text in that image that
is not shown, is so small that practicaly no-one with high dpi screen is
able to read it. Good thing I had low res screen.
Bobby is just tool. It won't really do anything good, if you don't know
what it is and how to use it. It even includes serious flaws (google
back), as well as does WGAG (language markup etc.). You have pixel widths
in your CSS for font size. They might prevent people using high dpi to
read pages. You use fixed width, so I can't read your page. Opera SSR
doesn't find that image either, and it is only way to access net in many
devices. Links and lynx also misses information that is available in only
image mode. This fails bobbys subjective test.
Notice that this message looks like normal message, but is harder to
understand as sentences are not in logical order. No automatic too can
check that. (No, that was not problem with your site. Yes, real reason
for that was not demonstrating. )
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Lauri Raittila <http://www.iki.fi/lr> <http://www.iki.fi/zwak/fonts>
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