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solve HTMLTIDY acessible serius issues

Asked by: jamie_2008

how to get rid off from accessibility warnings in htmltidy.
please see the following code .

there are some accessibility warnings . i want to remove them . please help

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
<title>The importance of video on the internet...</title>
<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
</head>
<body>
<div>
	<div class="ccont">
		<div  class="alinks">	Shaun  Smith-Roberts UB Number: 08017988 &nbsp; | &nbsp;<a href="#" title="Click here to return to the default page style" accesskey="d"  class="alinks" >Default Style</a> &nbsp; | &nbsp; <a href="#" title="Click here to remove the default page style" class="alinks">Remove style</a>
          &nbsp; | &nbsp; <a href="#content" class="alinks" title="Go directly to the page's content">Go to content</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
		</div>
	</div>
	<div id="main">
    <div><img id="logo" src="images/logo.png" longdesc="index.html" alt="alt text" /><a  href="index.html">d</a></div>
  		<div id="left">
        <h1>Menu</h1>
			<ul>
				<li><a title="back to the importance of video on the internet" href="index.html">Introduction</a></li>
				<li><a href="#">Marketing</a></li>
				<li><a href="#">Virals</a></li>
				<li><a href="#">Infofeeds</a></li>
				<li><a href="#">Personalisation</a></li>
				<li><a href="contact.php">Contact Us</a></li>
			</ul>
		</div>
		
       <div id="right">
       
       <h2>The importance of video on the internet...</h2>
        
        <br/>
<p>There is no magic bullet to kick start your internet marketing strategy, there is no single factor that will bring you online success, but every business owner should have an Arsenal of effective methods and strategies that they can put in place for certain scenarios that best suit the given situation.
Would you advertise your business in the real world simply by placing an advert in the local newspaper? Or by one solitary advertisement in the Yellow Pages?... no you wouldn't.</p>
<p>Any business owner worth his salt would have different strategies in place to get the word out about their business. Ads in the local newspaper, flyers, business cards, business network clubs, referral systems. Run a local radio ad campaign. Cold calling, Proliferate a word of mouth campaign.
There are so many valid ways to market your business offline that it is almost impossible to list them all here. These are all quite effective methods of bringing about more awareness to your business given that they are used in the right situation. You would not necessarily join a business network organisation if you weren't confident in public speaking. A referral system is no good to you if you don't have a fluid movement of people through your everyday life? 
Used in a combination with methods you are comfortable with as a strategy for your business is the tried and trusted way that thousands of business owners promote their business's offline.</p>
<p>So why is it that business people new to the internet are at a loss where to start when they build a website? There used to be a saying "Build it and they will come"
"I thought when you put your site on the Internet, everyone in the world sees it and the business just comes to you,"  
is too often the last tearful battle cry of the fallen online business.</p>
<p>Any online presence whether  it is a brochure site,  a product information site, a community portal, a sales site or even an ASP [ An Application Service Provider ] is merely an extension of your business and should be treated accordingly.
If you designed an offline printed magazine aimed at the same niche market as your product or service, you would not have them printed and leave them in the office gathering dust?</p>
<p>Of course not, you would be distributing them, in dentist's waiting rooms. You would be asking the news agent to put them on his shelves, you would be paying students to distribute them in certain areas. All of these methods would be put into practice without so much as a second thought.
So why do people print an "online magazine" and simply sit and wait for miracles to happen?</p>
<p>They won't !</p>
<p>With the "attention span of a goldfish" you haven't very long to capture the interest of your new prospective customer.</p>
<br/>
			
		</div>
        
        
		<div id="footer">
			<ul>
				<li><a title="Back to the importance of video on the internet" href="index.html">Introduction</a>|</li>
				<li><a href="#">Marketing</a>|</li>
				<li><a href="#">Virals</a>|</li>
				<li><a href="#">Infofeeds</a>|</li>
				<li><a href="#">Personalisation</a>|</li>
				<li><a href="contact.php">Contact Us</a>|</li>
				<li><a href="#top" title="Go directly to the top of the page">Return to Top</a></li>
			</ul>
			<div>
            
           <br/><br/>
			</div>
		</div>
	</div>
    </div>
</body>
</html>

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Asked On: 2009-03-27 at 02:22:09ID24270390
Tags: HTMLTIDY
,; CSS
Topics: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
,; Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
,; Firefox Web Browser
Participating Experts: 3
Points: 500
Comments: 15

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by: amar31282Posted on 2009-03-27 at 03:21:11ID: 23999373

What type of warnings you are talking about..

The one which comes up in at the top page in yellow color ...??
if yes that warning is because of IE security settings.

if you will open it in FF you will see no warning..

we can get rid of it by changing the security settings of IE but it is not recommended as it may harm to your system

Regards,
Amar

by: Eternal_StudentPosted on 2009-03-27 at 03:36:28ID: 23999479

Not entirely sure what you are talking about here? But if you validate your code and fix the errors it should get rid of any errors and make your code more accessible:

http://validator.w3.org/

by: amar31282Posted on 2009-03-27 at 03:40:26ID: 23999504

also you are missing left angle bracket in head tag

missing < in head

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by: jamie_2008Posted on 2009-03-27 at 05:05:30ID: 23999912

i have html tidy plugin install ..

my tutor said me ..that my site must be validated by html tidy ..

by: jamie_2008Posted on 2009-03-27 at 05:07:03ID: 23999919

there are accessible warnings in FF ..

please install the FF plugin of HTMLTIDY.

by: jamie_2008Posted on 2009-03-27 at 05:09:35ID: 23999939

when u will install the htmltidy plugin , u will notice that .. this page has 0 errors , 0 warnings but there are some accessible warnings .. i want to get rid off from them .. this is what i needed .

by: Eternal_StudentPosted on 2009-03-27 at 07:04:25ID: 24000970

what are the warnings?

by: MorcalavinPosted on 2009-03-27 at 07:14:23ID: 24001092

I've removed most of them. Some of them are more information messages and not necessarily anything wrong with the document.

Accessibility Checks: Version 0.1

line 6 column 1 - Access: [6.1.1.1]: style sheets require testing (link). //i believe this is informational, and does not necessarily constitute an error
line 16 column 10 - Access: [2.1.1.1]: ensure information not conveyed through c
olor alone (image). //again, I believe this is informational
line 16 column 88 - Access: [13.1.1.1]: link text not meaningful. //this one is strange actually, D links are required, but the end up being "non meaningful text". I think this could be a bug in Tidy.
Info: Doctype given is "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
Info: Document content looks like HTML 4.01 Strict
No warnings or errors were found. //Good to go.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>The importance of video on the internet...</title>
<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
</head>
<body>
<div>
        <div class="ccont">
                <div  class="alinks">   Shaun  Smith-Roberts UB Number: 08017988   |  <a href="#" title="Click here to return to the default page style" accesskey="d"  class="alinks" >Default Style</a>   |   <a href="#" title="Click here to remove the default page style" class="alinks">Remove style</a>
            |   <a href="#content" class="alinks" title="Go directly to the page's content">Go to content</a>      
                </div>
        </div>
        <div id="main">
    <div><img id="logo" src="images/logo.png" longdesc="index.html" alt="company logo"><a  href="index.html">d</a></div>
                <div id="left">
        <h1>Menu</h1>
                        <ul>
                                <li><a title="back to the importance of video on the internet" href="index.html">Introduction</a></li>
                                <li><a href="#">Marketing</a></li>
                                <li><a href="#">Virals</a></li>
                                <li><a href="#">Infofeeds</a></li>
                                <li><a href="#">Personalisation</a></li>
                                <li><a href="contact.php">Contact Us</a></li>
                        </ul>
                </div>
                
       <div id="right">
       
       <h2>The importance of video on the internet...</h2>
        
        <br>
<p>There is no magic bullet to kick start your internet marketing strategy, there is no single factor that will bring you online success, but every business owner should have an Arsenal of effective methods and strategies that they can put in place for certain scenarios that best suit the given situation.
Would you advertise your business in the real world simply by placing an advert in the local newspaper? Or by one solitary advertisement in the Yellow Pages?... no you wouldn't.</p>
<p>Any business owner worth his salt would have different strategies in place to get the word out about their business. Ads in the local newspaper, flyers, business cards, business network clubs, referral systems. Run a local radio ad campaign. Cold calling, Proliferate a word of mouth campaign.
There are so many valid ways to market your business offline that it is almost impossible to list them all here. These are all quite effective methods of bringing about more awareness to your business given that they are used in the right situation. You would not necessarily join a business network organisation if you weren't confident in public speaking. A referral system is no good to you if you don't have a fluid movement of people through your everyday life? 
Used in a combination with methods you are comfortable with as a strategy for your business is the tried and trusted way that thousands of business owners promote their business's offline.</p>
<p>So why is it that business people new to the internet are at a loss where to start when they build a website? There used to be a saying "Build it and they will come"
"I thought when you put your site on the Internet, everyone in the world sees it and the business just comes to you,"  
is too often the last tearful battle cry of the fallen online business.</p>
<p>Any online presence whether  it is a brochure site,  a product information site, a community portal, a sales site or even an ASP [ An Application Service Provider ] is merely an extension of your business and should be treated accordingly.
If you designed an offline printed magazine aimed at the same niche market as your product or service, you would not have them printed and leave them in the office gathering dust?</p>
<p>Of course not, you would be distributing them, in dentist's waiting rooms. You would be asking the news agent to put them on his shelves, you would be paying students to distribute them in certain areas. All of these methods would be put into practice without so much as a second thought.
So why do people print an "online magazine" and simply sit and wait for miracles to happen?</p>
<p>They won't !</p>
<p>With the "attention span of a goldfish" you haven't very long to capture the interest of your new prospective customer.</p>
<br>
                        
                </div>
        
        
                <div id="footer">
                        <ul>
                                <li><a title="Back to the importance of video on the internet" href="index.html">Introduction</a>|</li>
                                <li><a href="#">Marketing</a>|</li>
                                <li><a href="#">Virals</a>|</li>
                                <li><a href="#">Infofeeds</a>|</li>
                                <li><a href="#">Personalisation</a>|</li>
                                <li><a href="contact.php">Contact Us</a>|</li>
                                <li><a href="#top" title="Go directly to the top of the page">Return to Top</a></li>
                        </ul>
                        <div>
            
           <br><br>
                        </div>
                </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</body>
</html>

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by: Eternal_StudentPosted on 2009-03-27 at 07:57:47ID: 24001599

Ok well from that ... it sounds like you need to be mindful of color contrast or the use of color being the only means of conveying information ie, for people who are color blind. This is a check you need to make for most of your design if you are hoping to be as accessible as possible. There are some tools out there that can help with color contrast:

http://juicystudio.com/services/luminositycontrastratio.php

The other error is referring to a link not making sense outside of context. For example "click me" will make no sense what so ever to someone accessing your website in a speaking browser. If you change that link to be more descriptive like "see our full list of cleaning products".

So I guess these are accessibility warnings ... it depends weather or not you want to address them? What is the purpose of you getting rid of the warnings? Is it to make your site more accessible? If not then I wouldn't worry about them!

by: jamie_2008Posted on 2009-03-27 at 09:10:00ID: 24002523

@Eternal_Student: @Morcalavin: i agree wih u , i got same accessible warnings as u got .. like this

Access: [6.1.1.1]: style sheets require testing (link).

but my customer says .. all these accessible warnings must be removed ..

now what should i do ?
how i can satisfy my client .. ?

by: MorcalavinPosted on 2009-03-27 at 09:56:01ID: 24003084

Again, I don't think you can do anything about those warnings. They aren't telling you something is wrong with your document, merely that if you include those elements, you must make sure they meet certain criteria.

by: Eternal_StudentPosted on 2009-03-27 at 10:34:05ID: 24003487

If your customer wants those accessibility criteria met then you need to address them and prove that to them. It still won't get rid of the message as you can only determine if those warnings have been met by physically looking. The validator is just trying to point out that these are potential issues. What is the link text that it refers to on line 16 column 88? If it is something like "click here" then you could fix that.

by: MorcalavinPosted on 2009-03-27 at 10:39:54ID: 24003536

@Eternal_Student
What is the link text that it refers to on line 16 column 88? If it is something like "click here" then you could fix that

It's the d-link. I think it's a bug within Tidy. D-links are required for images. If you remove the link, you get an error saying you have a missing d-link. If you provide it, it barks that the link isn't expressive enough. I'm pretty sure he has the format right.

by: Eternal_StudentPosted on 2009-03-30 at 08:04:41ID: 24019666

Ok, well I am not familiar with that. I would normally use W3Cs validator.

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