Comments on: Accessible layouts

By: AlastairC

AlastairC — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:31:47 +0000

Hi Roger, assuming that you are stuck with that CMS, and can’t update the templates, I would base the selection on the testing criteria above.

If it is fairly ’spaceous’, and reacts well to browser-text resizing it should be ok.

Unless you can push the users towards Opera, in which case they will have a better time online in general…

By: roger

roger — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:12:48 +0000

I am doing a site for a charity (older people) and we want to use Joomla! CMS. This article shows up a real problem for us beacause as far as I know there is no template for CMSS that are elastic or meet many of these requirements. Any pointers?

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WCAG Samurai Errata Review « WCAG Samurai Peer Review — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 06:35:31 +0000

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By: AlastairC

AlastairC — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:46:46 +0000

Hi Matthew,

If you have a look at the source code, you’ll see I bring in an IE < 7 style sheet. Since the expressions for IE are not valid CSS, they are brought in with IE conditional comments, to avoid conflicts with other browsers.

This then uses a similar method to svendtofte’s, but not using EMs, as that doesn’t work if you set the font size (as most sites do!).

By: Matthew Bowden

Matthew Bowden — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:24:04 +0000

Great article. I’m hear after reading your article from .Net magazine which was also very interesting.

I’ve always used the ’svendtofte’ method for max width and then customised it for a min width:

http://digitallyrefreshing.com/2006/09/29/too-wide-too-narrow/

But how are you implementing your max/min widths for IE6 on this site?

Thanks!

By: Emma

Emma — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 15:17:48 +0000

Thanks, cool article. I’m in the process of redesigning my site and I think I’ve now decided on an elastic layout.

By: AlastairC

AlastairC — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 09:33:47 +0000

Hi Scott,

Yep, there is too much margin around the header image in Opera 8.5x. I’ve been meaning to do a test case, IE7 doesn’t get it right either.

Part of the problem is that Opera 9 beta renders it the same as Firefox… and I don’t know of a (valid) way to differentiate between Opera 8 & 9. As I said here:
http://alastairc.ac/2006/05/conditional-comments-in-css/

There does need to be a way…

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 09:16:04 +0000

Hey, just came across this article and your page doesn’t correct in Opera 8.54. It looks fine in Firefox 1.5 though.

By: Jamie Smith

Jamie Smith — Sat, 20 May 2006 22:40:12 +0000

Great article. I work for Florida Blind Services and am currently transforming my pages to xhtml and a tableless format. Your article helps support info I know but can’t enumerate! Thanks.