- From: Stuart Auton <stuart.auton@blueyonder.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 12:12:39 +0100
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Hello I'm a new(ish) web designer trying to get to grips with web interoperability. As a learning exercise, I want my own website to achieve Conformance Level Triple-A. My current headache is around understanding guideline 6.4 - For scripts and applets, ensure that event handlers are input device-independent. Currently, I'm coding links like this: <a href="sitemap.htm" title="site map" onmouseover="window.status='site map'; return true;" onfocus="window.status='site map'; return true;" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true;" onblur="window.status=''; return true;">site map</a> This provides what I feel is a helpful comment in the status bar rather than the directory path to the file. Testing my code with Site Valet (http://valet.webthing.com/access/url.html), I get a message telling me to ensure that scripting events are device-independent. I know that the onfocus/onblur combination is device-independent but I'm guessing that the onmouseover/onmouseout combination is not (having 'mouse' in the name was a clue...). As an aside, I've noticed that the onfocus/onblur combination appears to work in IE6 but not in Firefox whereas the onmouseover/onmouseout combination works in both. What I can't work out from the guidelines is whether my code as shown above is Triple-A compliant or not. My feeling is that it should be since with it users whose browsing technology doesn't understand it will discard it whilst without it, those whose browsing technology does understand it will be missing out on a potentially useful feature. I do appreciate that this is quite a minor point but I am trying not to rely on automated tools and want to develop my understanding in order to be able to apply commonsense when undertaking manual checks. Your views would be much appreciated. Many thanks in advance for your comments. Kind regards - Stuart Auton. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.11/45 - Release Date: 09/07/2005
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