- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 12:08:13 +0100 (BST)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> http://www.tryspot.com/tharapita/ is hard to view by color-blind people. This As well as the colour contrast problems (some or all of which are the result of inconsistent mixing of deprecated colour attributes and style sheets - I viewed it in a Linux version of Netscape 4 for which style sheets fail++ - what I see as black on dark blue appears to be intended to display as white on dark blue): - the text is in absolute sizes and, in some cases, those sizes are smaller than you will normally find on font size menus. 7pt text imaged for 640x480 is lower resolution than the 7x5 pixels of late 1960s first generation VDUs (trying to bold this sort of resolution, as you do for 8pt, is likely to be ugly - VDUs used high intensity instead) - the small fonts are unlikely to image well unless the browser believes it is using a 1024x768 display on a 14 inch monitor; - Verdana is not a generic font and not even universally available - it is basically only found on recent Microsoft systems, even though Microsoft license it liberally to allow more general use - you need to specify a generic font as a fallback; - effectively unset alt text (image file name and size is not a reasonable fallback), also: actually unset alt text; - "Tell a Friend" etc, should be H1, not P (arguably Tharapita.com should be H1 and Introduction H2); - B instead of STRONG; - Misuse of BR (BR ends a line, it doesn't force vertical movement of the writing point unless that is needed for the following content and ending a line that hasn't started oughtn't to require such movement anyway - the fact that some common browsers incorrectly handle redundant BRs is no excuse); - Misuse of BR to simulate style P {margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0} - note that neither this style nor the use of BR are safe as the last line of a paragraph may be maximum length - having a small margin is the only safe thing until first line or first character style selectors work reliably. - the document character set is given as windows-1252, a Microsoft proprietory character set, even though it appears not to use any characters from windows-1252 that aren't at the same code points in the default HTML transfer character set of iso-8859-1; - endemic failure to include mandatory quotes around parameter values; - various bogus or highly proprietory attributes (I've never seen body=body on p before); - no <!-- ... --> around content of styles to protect early browsers; - 60 HTML syntax errors, including some structural error (e.g. overlapping center and table elements, with the close tag for the center in a context that only allows tr, tbody, tfoot or /table). ++ The heavy use of deprecated markup indicates that the page is intended to work on browsers which don't support style sheets.
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