- From: Judy Brewer <jbrewer@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 15:40:50 -0400
- To: geoff freed <geoff_freed@wgbh.org>, <w3c-wai-eo@w3.org>
At 02:08 PM 8/24/00 -0500, geoff freed wrote: > >Speaking as perhaps the lone Mac user, I have just a few comments: > >1. In a rare instance of cooperation, both IE 5 and Netscape Communicator 4.7 >behaved nearly identically when showing the new WAI pages. >That's not a complaint. Really. JB: Thanks for checking on the Mac. >2. >"it is not a fancy redesign..." >YAY! I think its design is, on the whole, just fine and would urge >you not to do much more to dress it up. JB: I was thinking of later. Much later... >Having said that... >I'm not wild about the light yellow background color or the darker yellow >boxes behind the headers. They make me squint and, believe it or not, I find >that I read much more slowly on pages with bright colors. >Personally, I prefer white as a background. JB: Fascinating. In the browsers I've tried it in, it has a very faint egg-shell color background -- just enough to take the edge off of the white -- and then a really dull mustard behind the H2's. Nothing bright about it at all, except maybe the light green navbar. I'll chase down a Mac and have a look. Another argument for browser-safe, although I've heard that even those colors aren't so reliable. >3. Uh... allow me to refute #1: the bullets appear as solid dots in IE and clear >dots in Netscape. ?? Checking on a PC, it appears the intention is to >use solid dots, which I prefer. JB: Yes, my intention was solid dots, and I get the hollow ones in NS as well. Actually I'd like to get away from the darned dots, but I don't want to start throwing a bunch of images on the page unnecessarily. >4. On the Home page, the "questions about site?" link is a direct mailto link. >Don't forget to include the e-mail address in the text. JB: In real life, this will probably go to a section of the "About WAI" page, which will have room to spell out these things. >5. I also tested it with Home Page Reader and had no problems. JB: Thanks! - Judy >Geoff/NCAM > > > >On Wednesday, August 23, 2000, Judy Brewer <jbrewer@w3.org> wrote: >>EOWG: >> >>Please review this redraft of the WAI Home Page -- and please read this >>before commenting. >> >>- the purpose of this redraft is to reorganize and clean up the current >>home page; >>- it is not a fancy redesign -- we will do more on another round; >>- there are still some style sheet bugs, and it needs to be tested in >>multiple browsers; >>- it breaks information out into several new sub-pages, which also should >>be reviewed; >>- while the sub-pages are at their proper URI's, the redraft of the home >>page is_not_ in its eventual home, so you'll need your "go back" command to >>get back to it from any sub-pages, until it is at its own URL (next week, >>if this is accepted as an improvement over the current home page); >>- some info is missing, and some links not yet active, as you will see >>(e.g. the "how to participate" or "how to get involved" page is not yet in >>place). >> >>Questions for review: >>- is the organization of info better? >>- are the navigation options clear? >>- are there key pieces of info you can't easily find? >>- does it work well on various assistive technologies? >>- does it display well in GUI browsers? >>- is it an improvement over the current WAI home page (this should not be a >>great challenge...)? >>- other? >> >>Send review comments to: >>- w3c-wai-eo@w3.org, with a subject line of "WAI HOME PAGE >>REDRAFT" >> >>Pages for review: >> http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/Drafts/WAI-home.html >> http://www.w3.org/WAI/events.html >> http://www.w3.org/WAI/Resources/ >> http://www.w3.org/WAI/contacts.html >> >>Comments in advance of our EOWG meeting this Friday August 25 >>are welcome. >> >>Thanks, >> >>- Judy >>-- >>Judy Brewer jbrewer@w3.org +1.617.258.9741 http://www.w3.org/WAI >>Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) >>EOWG Home: http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO >> > -- Judy Brewer jbrewer@w3.org +1.617.258.9741 http://www.w3.org/WAI Director, Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) International Program Office World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) MIT/LCS Room NE43-355, 545 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
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