[dba-Tech] Web Site Problem

If you got to:
http://www.winhaven.net/misc/misc.html

Hover your mouse over the little moving musical note graphic link it will
show a tooltip saying: A glimpse of what we are listening to...
That's alt text. If you turn the graphics off in your browser the alt text
should still work. When posting a graphic you can use the alt text to
describe the graphic so that that someone with a visual impairment can
understand the web page graphics via a reader.

The html link looks like this:
<img src="images/Note%20moving.gif" alt="A glimpse of what we are listening
to..." height="50" width="50" align="middle" border="0">

Actually in the example above I probably shouldn't use alt text because I
have a text link right next to it that describes it. Might be irritating to
hear that read twice by a machine.


-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin at
Beach Access Software
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 2:55 PM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Web Site Problem

"Alt text"  whuzzat?

Rocky





 	
	

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Bartow
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 12:40 PM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Web Site Problem

Alt text should take care of the accessibility problem. I always place alt
for photos and such. Should work the same for fancy text graphics too.

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Bryan Carbonnell
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 12:22 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Web Site Problem

On 3/19/07, John Bartow <john at winhaven.net> wrote:
> Rocky,
> A good  guideline for basic web design - design to the lowest common 
> denominator. Not all computers will have the fonts you have. You can 
> usually assume that the standard windows and Mac fonts are installed.
> If you want to use a font for stylistic reasons you need to post it in 
> a format that doesn't require the user to have the font installed.
> Some examples would be .jpg, .gif, .png, .pdf, .swf

Careful with that though. You lose accessibility for visually impaired folks
that use screen readers unless you design the page very carefully.

> Send us a link and maybe we can figure out the sound issue.

Sounds like IE is calling WMP as a helper app to play the wav file.

To embed it in the page so that it plays like the pages you've seen Rocky,
you need to look at the embed HTML tag. Just make sure that you display the
play/pause controls so that folks can kill the audio if they want to.
Nothing like listening to rock MP3s and then hitting a website with some
light peppy embeded audio with no controls.

--
Bryan Carbonnell - carbonnb at gmail.com
Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved
body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "What a
great ride!"
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