- From: Matthew Smith <matt@kbc.net.au>
- Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 14:02:24 +0930
- To: WAI Interest Group <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Hi All I have been working with some software that generates weather reports from various data held in a MySQL database. The software produces a static HTML page that may be uploaded to a web server. The HTML produced by the software was rather haphazard and messy, so I have been re-writing the appropriate parts of the software to generate valid XHTML 1.0 strict, formatted with valid CSS, that is as accessible as possible. Having run the code through the W3C HTML and CSS validators and then through AccessValet and Bobby, I believe that I have something which has the beginnings of being accessible. I respectfully submit the following for your consideration: <http://www.mss.cx/current_weather.html> One of the major stumbling points was the automatic refresh. We've been through that one on this list recently and I have found a reasonable solution, but only for pages generated on-the-fly. I have applied a very simple JavaScript solution to this static page. If JavaScript is not there, you don't get an auto-refresh facility. If JavaScript is there, you have the means to turn auto-refresh on and off. Comments on this technique and the page in general would be appreciated. As the original software is Open Source, I will re-release it as such when I've finished working on it. Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Kadina Business Consultancy South Australia
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