- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 13:34:58 +0100
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Stuart Auton wrote: > 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. Not to sound pessimistic, but: be aware that AAA is not as easy to achieve as some people think. AA yes, to a certain extent. But some of the priority 3 guidelines are not straightforward. I'd shy away from ever claiming AAA, as some P3 points are highly subjective (see for instance 14.2) Anyway, rant over. > This provides what I feel is a helpful comment in the status bar rather > than the directory path to the file. However, the directory path is the browser's expected behaviour, and you're effectively overriding how the browser works. Also: why do you need helpful comments in the status bar of all places? Screenreaders would not pick up any change that you made to the status bar. Your link text should be helpful enough without resorting to this gimmick (which I thought had gone out of fashion sometime in the late 90s). > 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. Strange, I've not had any trouble with FF like that. Onfocus/onblur are fired as they should. Related to the previous part of this answer, I seem to recall that FF has disabled the ability of javascript to update part of the GUI like the status bar by default. That is more likely the cause of your problem. Moral of the story: don't update the status bar text. It's something that was quite popular more than a decade ago. Your link text itself should be explicity enough without having to resort to "helpful" text in a completely separate part of the browser. None of the users I work with on a daily basis ever actually noticed the status bar...it's not something normal users look at. -- Patrick H. Lauke __________________________________________________________ re·dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used postpositively [latin : re-, re- + dux, leader; see duke.] www.splintered.co.uk | www.photographia.co.uk http://redux.deviantart.com __________________________________________________________ Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force http://webstandards.org/ __________________________________________________________
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