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Q Tag Unleashed
I’ve long bemoaned the fact that Internet Explorer’s inability to correctly render content enclosed by the <q> tag severely limited its usefulness.
The issue lies with the fact that IE, incorrectly, renders any text inside <q>…</q> without the appropriate quotation marks. Firefox, in comparison, renders the text correctly enclosed with quotation marks. So if you manually add quotes to support IE, you risk Firefox users being confronted with a double set of quotes! If you omit the quotation marks, IE users may not be able to differentiate quoted text from plain text.
Which of the two browsers is correct?
Web Accessibility Course
I’ve been invited by the Society of Information Technology Management (SOCITM) to provide a web accessibility course in late November.
SOCITM is the professional association for ICT managers working in, and for, the public sector. Members are drawn primarily from local authorities but also from the police and fire services, housing authorities and other locally delivered public service. With over 1900 members from 550 different organisations (including 98% of all UK local authorities), SOCITM provides a widely respected forum for the promotion, use and development of ICT best practice. It also plays a leading role in the implementation of local e-government in the UK.
AOL again
This time last year, I mentioned that a client of mine had been sending spam reports to AOL accusing himself of forwarding spam to his own account. As a result, his hosting company were threatened with blacklisting. Fortunately, I was able to fix that situation by suspending the client’s mail forwarding and forcing him to use webmail instead.
Now, another UK hosting company has exactly the same problem.
Legal Precedent Set for Web Accessibility
On September 6th 2006, a Californian federal judge ruled that a retailer may be sued if its website is inaccessible to the blind.
The ruling was issued in a case brought by the National Federation of the Blind on behalf of blind college student, Bruce “BJ” Sexton against Target. The lawsuit, originally filed in Alameda superior court on February 7th 2006, claims that the Target website is inaccessible to the blind and therefore violates the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the California Unruh Civil Rights Act, and the California Disabled Persons Act.
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