Re: Playing nicely with Bobby

Subject: Re: Playing nicely with Bobby
From: "Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- editors-writers -dot- info>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 16:27:34 -0400


I wrote:

I just put my home page through Bobby and saw that it does not read the HTML
in context. For example, an <IMG> tag that does not display a picture was
cited as lacking ALT text.

-->Addition: The <IMG> tag in question is in a script for a page counter
and does not display. It is surrounded by tags that instruct the browser not
to display it.


________________________
Bonnie Granat
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For all your editorial needs


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- editors-writers -dot- info>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 4:21 PM
Subject: Re: Playing nicely with Bobby


> >
> > I'd just like to get a feel for the kind of sites that can pass this
> > rigorous test. I think it's a great standard to aim for.
> >
>
> I just put my home page through Bobby and saw that it does not read the
HTML
> in context. For example, an <IMG> tag that does not display a picture was
> cited as lacking ALT text.
>
> I received a report from someone using a text browser recently that my
page
> was easily comprehensible in a text reader, so I'm not worried about it.
>
> Unless you know the HTML code in question well enough to determine if in
> fact Bobby is correct, I'd reserve judgment on whether a page is compliant
> or not.
>
> Bobby also had some concern about other images on my page (the navigation
> buttons) and asked me to check that any use of the concept of "color" was
> conveyed in another way in addition to the color itself. There was
nothing
> about color in the lines of my code that Bobby questioned, but there
*were*
> <IMG> tags that were hyperlinks. Now, perhaps it is reading the style
sheet
> underneath the HTML. That might explain this error. My point, however, is
> that Bobby is not infallible.
>
>
> <OFF-OFF-OFF-TOPIC>
>
> For proof that marriage exists in the animal kingdom, see
> http://www.editors-writers.info/proof.html.
>
> </OFF-OFF-OFF-TOPIC>
>
> ________________________
> Bonnie Granat
> http://www.editors-writers.info
> For all your editorial needs
>
>
>




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