With nothing better to do while on campus, I'm going through Mark Pilgrim's Dive Into Accessibility, improving my templates. I already had a doctype, no javascript: links, no new windows, real lists, relative font sizes, real headers, and labeled form elements (days 6, 13, 16, 22, 26, 27, and 28). Because I thieved code from Mark himself, I already had acronyms, real calendar captions, and real table headings and summaries (days 17, 18, 19, and 20). I added an <html lang/>, document <link/>s to monthly calendars, and appropriate accesskeys (7, 9, and 15). Ignoring spacer images (21), providing text equivalents (23 and 24), and using real hrs (25) don't apply, as I don't use hrs or images (but when I do, I use alt). Arranging content first in the document (#10) I kind of have: every page has a bit of content before the sidebar, then the sidebar, then more content. I do offer a skip-sidebar link (#11), so I think that's OK.
Day 8 is "Constructing meaningful page titles." When Mark writes, "Date-based archive pages should include the name of your web site, followed by the date," does it have to be "followed by?" I wrote my titles thinking mainly of normal browser users, so the specific bit of the title should come first ("Diving into accessibility: markpasc.org"), so it's displayed when shortened in small tab and task bar spaces. Is that me-centric and annoying to others?
Only now do I notice the book's own page titles are, e.g., "Day 8: Constructing meaningful page titles - Dive Into Accessibility."
I should comb through my templates with an eye toward adding titles to links. I should look at making everything searchable, especially as the blow I dealt to the search templates was only glancing. When I'm done, I'll add my accessibility statement to my as yet mythical colophon.
Looking good, if I do say so myself!
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