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www.monash.edu
By Gian Sampson-WildManager, Usability and Accessibility ServicesITS Web Centre
Accessibility and the Monash homepage
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Circa August 2006
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Circa August 2006: The good
• “Skip to content” link• worked with CSS disabled• fields labeled• headings used• CSS used to style bullets
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Circa August 2006: The bad
• tables for layout• “Go” button• no navigation labels• ascii characters used
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Circa August 2006: The ugly
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Circa November 2006
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The marketing goals
• “fresher” look• easier to maintain• languages other than
English• based on feedback
and log analysis
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The development goals
• no tables• semantic markup• XHTML• preserve reading order• no browser hacks• standards compliance
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A few problems…
• getting rid of tables• four columns• browser support:
IE 7, NN 4.7• screen width
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New accessibility features
• navigation labels• “Find” submit button• “Skip to the content”• “Search” not capitalised• removal of ascii characters (>>)• relative instead of absolute units
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Challenges
• designers being developers• marketing being
aesthetically driven• IE being a monster
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Why it worked
• marketing / IT relationship• the relationship
between marketing and IT
• how marketing listened to IT and IT listened to marketing
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Questions?
• I’m always happy to talk:
Gian Sampson-Wildph: (03) 9902 0535email: [email protected]