- From: Lois Wakeman <lois@lois.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 15:13:55 -0000
- To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Lisa, The home page has two priority 2 (AA) errors in Bobby - both of which should be fixable. So, a pretty impressive start! It all works in Lynx, so even though you have used tables, they linearise well. (By using CSS styles to position the left panel, you could have the main content first and that would be even better.) Contrast: blue links on cyan don't have a very good tonal contrast - try a greyscale screenshot to see what I mean - tricky for those with low acuity. (Improved by the yellow hover colour, but you have to be on the link to get the benefit - not helpful for scanning.) More systematic use of heading structures is good, to help screen reader users to envisage the structure of the page. E.g. on disability resources page, I'd have used H1 for the title and H2 for the links, not H2 and P. The font you use for headings doesn't look to be optimised for screen use and isn't as readable as, for example, Georgia would be. Likewise, Arial vs Verdana for the body font. Using a larger than default line-height to give more space can make it less tiring to read big chunks of text, but you have to take special action to avoid problems with Netscape 4 (if you support that in style sheets) BTW, two minor observations: "Your Invited to Our Annual General Meeting and Showcase Fair" and "FAQ's" on newsletters page - don't just rely on Word to pick up typos <G>; and the font for links in the last footer section is set very small - I suspect a double percentage somewhere in the style sheet without looking further into this. If you want more info on any of these, get back to me off-list. Kind regards, Lois Wakeman ------------------------------------------------------ http://lois.co.uk http://siteusability.com http://communicationarts.co.uk ------------------------------------------------------
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