> http://www.hcsminerva.com/elmbridge/ - Elmbridge e-museum; designed to
> provide greater accessibility to the museum (it sits on 2
> kiosks in the museum and on the web-site; was created with input from the partially
> sighted and RNIB)
The kiosk version won't be a problem, but the web version crashes NN4.7 (Win98se). I'd import the style sheet to hide it from NN4. It works fine in Opera 5.12 when I turn off style sheets (it works with them on as well, I just wanted to see the "un-styled" version). I'd be interested to see it on a machine that doesn't have Comic Sans, if only to find out what font gets displayed instead!
The css validator at jigsaw.w3.org gives a number of errors, but only the last two are significant (the rest relate to scrollbar properties), and an impressive list of warnings, mostly about background-color/color potential problems (many, probably most, of which could be safely ignored).
Nice to see an imagemap used properly!
>
> http://www.lookingatbuildings.org.uk/ - from Pevsner's Architectural
> Guides - contains a glossary, a section on how buildings are
> constructed and
> profiles of several cities' buildings. Has quite a few interactives.
>
You have the "valid HTML4.01" logo/link -- but it isn't! There's a problem with your unordered list (it doesn't like it being nested within <p> tags), and a missing alt attribute. Changes since the page was first validated?
That aside, I think this site shows just how you can use Flash to add information, explanation and interactivity to a web site, rather than what all too often happens, substitute animation for information. It's also a great example of flexible design - flowing to fit the user's window, not nailed to some fixed-width paper design.
Bit of a dog's breakfast in NN4 (the King of Broken Browsers), though. Perhaps use an imported rather than a linked style sheet? A plain html version will work fine (Opera 5.12 with style sheets off), and I think that's all that should be required of a web site.
What's good about these sites is that even when there are accessibility errors, they are minor, and they are isolated, because the sites show clear evidence that accessibility was included from the beginning, rather than being seen as a bolt-on extra.
To miss one alt attribute is mistake. To miss them out consistently begins to look like carelessness.
> Regards
>
> Chris Meaney (AIMC)
> Managing Director
>
Best wishes
Pete (off to try them with Lynx!)
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Peter M Gray
Museums Officer
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