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A kind of blog like thing...
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SVG Accessibility
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July 24th 2002 @ 13:52
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About a week ago, I decided that SVG was less accessible than Flash, neither are particularly accessible of course, but I held off on actually saying it in public, 'cos it's not really the done thing, but after some discussions on the
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I let the cat out the bag, it has not surprisingly
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So as suggested by
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Chris
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picture gallery
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. I'm pretty happy with the result, some longdescs are the only other things I think I really need, but they are time consuming to create.
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Mozilla Accepts...
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July 22rd 2002 @ 10:43
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I got an email today about the
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javascript FAQ
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, they were requesting I change the link to the
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DOM FAQ
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because when accessed with Mozilla it returns an XSL stylesheet due to content-negotiation. This demonstrates 2 problems, firstly that the W3 DOM are pretty silly serving up an XSL file as a representation of the FAQ.
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More importantly though it shows up a serious bug in Mozilla in prefering random XML representation over a text/html one. Mozilla appears to send headers which include "text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9", this says give me xml over text/html (the text/html has a lower q value.). The problem here is that most content served with an XML content type is not readable by humans so Mozilla having a preference for XML does nothing to help its users.
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The Mozilla bug about www-DOM FAQ page
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, has this as a Tech-Evangelism bug, rather than a browser one.
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Running...
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July 22rd 2002 @ 10:36
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So yesterday I ran the
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- I was a bit disappointed coming home in 48:19, my second fastest 10k ever, but I really wanted to break 48 minutes.
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A more accessible jigsaw
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(July 18th 2002 @ 21:13)
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The
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web accessibility folks
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face2face in Linz
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, and they looked at a couple of my SVG demos to see if they could be made accessible. The
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jigsaw puzzle
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is the one where I think there's at least a chance - so I had a go at creating a
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more accessible jigsaw
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. It's not accessible, but it's better.
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Yahoo's filtering
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(July 18th 2002 @ 21:13)
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Okay, so I'm reading
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codestore
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(no idea why, I don't have anything to do with domino, but he does say some stuff about SVG.)
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and I found this
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new scientist report on yahoo's filtering
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. It's interesting that it creates new words, but what's worrying is how simplistic the security is, they reportedly filter "eval" to "review", which suggests that eval is a problem. There's lots of ways to include malicious script, and I'd suggest you dump yahoo into a security zone where script is disabled until they can prove their filters are up to scratch.
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Looking around...
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(July 18th 2002 @ 11:37)
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So I look around at other peoples blogs for inspiration on what blogging software needs (well I had to develop my own blogging software, you're not "geek" unless you do surely?) and so I visit
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Scott Andrew's Blog.
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where I learn a few things about what to include in a Blog. I also find though that he has things like this
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- so here's a well respected
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"DHTML guru"
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that adds script which harms
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accessibility
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. If javascript is disabled the link goes to the top the page and the information is completely hidden, accessibility is easy, but it takes some thought.
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(I'll overlook the fact that he shouldn't be serving up the page as text/html. at all.)
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Hmm.. anyone noticed how much
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Scott Andrew
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looks like
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Dan Brickley
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, are they perhaps related?.
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In the beginning...
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(July 18th 2002 @ 10:39)
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Well, I'm getting old, my memory's going, so I thought I would try and find out if a blog will do as an artificial memory. The advantage of this experiment is it will definately be successful - if I blog it, I'll remember and if I don't I won't remember that I forgot.
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