W3C Accessibility validation

[RuralWeb]

I have just checked the Exec theme home page for its level of accessibility and it has failed level one due to the 20 theme_shim gifs that do not have alt tags. Product pages also fail due to having 23 shim gifs. They should have null tags so they are ignored by screen readers.

[cdicken]

Please report this as a problem to v8beta@actinic.co.uk.

Nothing reported on these pages alone will be fixed for production release.

[jont]

Just looking at the actinic.css file associated with the Exec theme just wondered why the mix of font size types.....

fixed font sizes under the old classes (.actregular)
proportional em sizing for the newer css codes (h2.boxheading) and then
proportional percentage sizing (.sidebox)

[cdicken]

There's no great reason for this. Different design elements were written at different times by different designers. Is this a problem?

[jont]

Different design elements were written at different times by different designers

I guessed that was the reason :)

It is not an issue in terms of using Actinic as the system and the layouts obviously work.... just another small step on the road towards W3C compliance ... which on the whole is looking much much healthier in v8 it has to be said

[pinbrook]

Different design elements were written at different times by different designers. Is this a problem?

would be nice to see it tidied up

[jont]

would be nice to see it tidied up

.. and_the_use_of_some_simpler_class_names by using more /*###comments###*/ instead

one can live in hope for Actinic users that do not want to learn CSS