Hello, i'm having some problems on my server atm, so i can't check my board. But in the last weeks i had some users complain about accessibility. The javascript was one issue, tab index is also. But i wonder how does mybb team think about, is it possible to make the board more accessibile? I know this like 80% theme/style, but if you check W3C WAG there's a lot of stuff that can be done in the coding.
what you mean by accessibility?
If you mean to the ability to surf without javascript, I know you can do it, but with less features like ajax, bbcode buttons when writing / editing posts etc.
If you mean to make web content accessible to people with disabilities, if I'm not mistaken it's only a matter of templates as you already say, you suggest a new theme
here.
If you can point about a specific thing it would be better.
BTW,
This community has a great places in google search results, I've just searched for "w3c wag" and this thread get the 7th place!
Applause to mybb team!
Another BTW,
I think you meant 'W3C WAI' (Web Accessibility Initiative) or 'W3C WCAG' (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines)
Yes you're right, WCAG. I mean access without javascript or any clientside script and also people with disabilities.
I'll take a try on a theme my own, i got some idea for color-blind on css
I've seen some sites with css-only menu, and lots of cross-browser stuff, but i didn't test mybb on many browsers.
MyBB works fine without Javascript.
Yeah, right, i find out ajax quick reply is because plugin. But mybb still got some "alt" missing, on images
thats not good when the site is slow to load and user can't guess what images are.
zemane Wrote:Yeah, right, i find out ajax quick reply is because plugin. But mybb still got some "alt" missing, on images thats not good when the site is slow to load and user can't guess what images are.
There are hundreds of images, you'll have to be more specific than that
All the avatars, and plus:
/images/toplinks/search.gif
/images/toplinks/memberlist.gif
/images/toplinks/calendar.gif
/images/toplinks/help.gif
The toplinks just can't be reach if no image is given
/images/pixel.gif
Thats what i found on my first test, but you could submit all mybb pages to w3c validate (there is a offline version too).
/images/pixel.gif isn't supposed to have an alt because its just supposed to be a blank pixel.
zemane Wrote:All the avatars,
The avatars have the ALT attribute set, meaning they comply with XHTML Transitional standard. For example, Tikitiki's avatar code:
<img src="./uploads/avatars/avatar_2165.png" alt="" width="100" height="100" />
Should they really have avatar text? Personally I don't think they should.
zemane Wrote:/images/toplinks/search.gif
/images/toplinks/memberlist.gif
/images/toplinks/calendar.gif
/images/toplinks/help.gif
The toplinks just can't be reach if no image is given
For the default theme, no. Those also have the ALT attribute set.
Have you tried visiting this page with images disabled? The links display fine.
Well, why not avatars have the alt as ="avatar" ? I think they could.
Yes the links display without images... but blank alts it's just, so wierd for me, lol i know i sound like picking on mybb code...
But so far this thread have been good to make some issues clean for me, now i can explain better to my users and work on my own theme.