[beb]

Anyone had to deal with this nonsense? I work at a college so my stuff apparently has to follow the guidelines of this bs crapola.

When the hell did the US start looking like communist Russia with all this bs website/publication rules and whatnot?

BTW, The Bobbycast tool doesn't even approve the US Department of Justice website. I'm gonna post the website in Guam or Cuba or some other 3rd world country to escape this legal bs.

[beb]

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[Simon Mundy]

If that's your approach to web design, then I'm sure you will have a prosperous future.

Don't take eyesight for granted.

[milf]

If that's your approach to web design, then I'm sure you will have a prosperous future.

Don't take eyesight for granted.

Thanks for saying what everyone else is thinking!

Anyone had to deal with this nonsense? I work at a college so my stuff apparently has to follow the guidelines of this bs crapola.

I worked on several government websites that required Section 508 compliance. It's not as bas as it seems, just takes a bit of getting used to.

[Millennium]

Link, please? Perhaps we can offer some help if we know what your site is.

Originally posted by beb:
One more point, I already include ALT tags on everything, I think I'm gonna start changing the description from "A picture of a potato" to "A f--king picture of a potato, you dumb blind jack--- motherf--k--- bunch of ..."

My my my; do you hate the blind that much?

No, I don't actually mean that. But I will say that your unwillingness to make your site accessible is inconsiderate to a rather shocking degree.

Now, let's look at this from a -dare I say it- logical standpoint. Things which can help a site along the path to Section 508 compliance.

• ALT attributes on everything. This is, in itself, not too difficult; the only trick is in designing ALT attributes properly. For one, put blank ALT attributes ("") on images which shouldn't show up to blind users, such as spacer GIF's. Navigation images should have a name that would make sense in a plaintext navigation menu (usually this is the same as the text on the image). As for others, you're not going for what the image is, but what it means. This requires nothing more than a few seconds of thought; think about why you put an image up there, and go with that. Some images might even be given blank ALT attributes; for example, you should blank out a logo if it's immediately followed or preceded by the name of whatever the logo represents, unless you want to put some kind of slogan in there. NOTE: If you don't want tooltips to appear in broken browsers such as IE/Win, then blank the TITLE attribute.
• Summary attributes on tables. This goes by the same principle as alt attributes on images. Blank this on tables used for layout.
• "Skip" links for things like ASCII art, navigation, and long boring stuff. This is absurdly simple to hide from anyone using a Web browser which supports CSS, because even IE3 and NS4 (the first mainstream browsers to support any CSS at all) support display:none.

Note that so far we have not affected the design of your Website at all; there is absolutely no visual difference to most users. This is not draconian in the least, or at least, no more so than it is for architecture in buildings.

Again, a link would be appreciated.

[beb]

Jeez, I set off one here.

I might point out that I'm the ONLY person to build this college's website. That I'm the one sets up the webserver, the one who takes the photos, builds the graphics, shoots and edits the video and God knows what else -it is quite easy to get frustrated.

I was trained for Video or TV work, (which someday I'd like to get back to) not to figure out how to make the data for the student application get processed into a program running on a Sun/Solaris box.

In education, there is no budget, nor is there adaquate personnel, nor is there any real adminstrative insight, nor any help which they should provide at least to some extent.

As for my earlier blind comment, it was inexcusable, and I apologize.