Web Accessibility

Intense or large images are images that are extremely large in both file size and dimensions. Large images are very slow to load on a dialup connection.

An alt tag is meant to give those using a screen reader a description of what the image is since they cannot see it and in case the images don't load, a description of the image.

Web Accessibility is a big topic now. You can read more about it accessibility

Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can use the Web. More specifically, Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with the Web, and that they can contribute to the Web. Web accessibility also benefits others, including older people with changing abilities due to aging.

Web accessibility encompasses all disabilities that affect access to the Web, including visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive, and neurological disabilities. The document "How People with Disabilities Use the Web" describes how PWD-USE-Web

Different disabilities affect Web use and includes scenarios of people with disabilities using the Web.

Millions of people have disabilities that affect their use of the Web. Currently most Web sites and Web software have accessibility barriers that make it difficult or impossible for many people with disabilities to use the Web.

As more accessible Web sites and software become available, people with disabilities are able to use and contribute to the Web more effectively.

Web accessibility also benefits people without disabilities. For example, a key principle of Web accessibility is designing Web sites and software that are flexible to meet different user needs, preferences, and situations. This flexibility also benefits people without disabilities in certain situations, such as people using a slow Internet connection, people with "temporary disabilities" such as a broken arm, and people with changing abilities due to aging.

The document Developing a Web Accessibility Business Case for Your Organization describes many different benefits of Web accessibility, including benefits for organizations.

Some use the tools www.w3.org/WAI/ER/tools/complete

Patricia Geary

In my experience, Google Analytics is an abomination. I use Ancestry.co.uk a lot and I find that very often after doing a search and clicking on the link to display the original image, the image never loads. It just hangs waiting for something to happen involving Google Analytics. I have to stop the load and do a Reload of the image. It then usually works but having to do this is a real pain.

Vernon Smith

When you load a page containing the Google Analytics code your browser downloads a JavaScript code (either urchin.js or ga.js) from an extremely fast server. It's 23 kilobytes in size and on a dialup connection will add 4 seconds to the loading time.

If the webmaster has followed the instructions correctly and placed the code just in front of the closing </body> tag then the entire page will have already been displayed and you won't notice the extra download time. The problem comes when the webmaster has NOT followed the instructions and has placed the code at the start of a page or inside a table. Nothing is displayed in a table until it's entire contents have been downloaded and this makes the page slow to load. For this reason most professional webmasters have abandoned using tables to lay out a web page and are now using CSS. Used properly Google Analytics won't noticeably slow down your pages. I notice ancestry.co.uk are using the code after their </html> tag rather than just before </body>

9-5-2009 John Chapman www.genlinks.org.uk

In practice, many sites have broken code, and Ancestry is a major offender in that realm, but html that is not valid is the norm for commercial websites. They don't seem to care, as long as the pages work in IE. I think they use tools to create the pages for them, instead of checking them carefully.

But I don't think it is just the location of the code for Google Analytics, as you mentioned. Opera browser (at least my version) doesn't display anything until the whole page has downloaded, so the more that is happening behind the scenes, the longer I have to wait to start reading a page.

Yes, Google Analytics has great information, but I found other tools that give me the information I need as a webmaster, without having to deal with their webmaster pages and statistics, which were a nightmare for me, including browser often crashing before I could get to the statistics I wanted. They aren't the only show on the road for free webmaster tools.

And I really don't want any of my site visitors to have to go through the pain of a slowly loading page.

The Cohens in California

To open a PDF file in a new window, use the following code. It is a live example, and provided you are on broadband, copy & paste the code below into your text editor. Use Find/Replace to Find [ then Replace with < , likewise Find ] then Replace with > and save as a html file.

Now open it in your browser and click on the link.

[!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"];
[html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en"]
[head]
[meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /]
   [title]Open PDF in New Window[/title]
[/head]
[body]
[div]
[a href="javascript:void
 window.open('http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kyscgs/delbrth/adair.pdf',
'newwin','toolbar=no,directories=no,titlebar=no')"]Adair[/a]
[/div]
[/body]
[/html]

NOTE: For some reason best known to itself, Mailman has decided that any attempts to hide html from it are doomed to fail! Hence the use of [ as opposed to <. which it sometimes rejects.

Barry

Foef om je e-mail-adres op een webpagina te melden, zonder "mailto" te gebruiken, wat voor spam-hackers de methode is om clandizie te vinden op het Internet.

<p>Please contact me for lookups in my database and records. Mail to <a title="Copy and Paste the email address to your email editor to send me mail.">cindysmith9<code>@</code>hotmail.com</a> and include Holdridge Genealogy in the subject line.</p>

There is no @ symbol and no "mailto" to indicate to a spambot that it *is* an email address. In addition, the only SE allowed to spider the archives is Google, which maintains the JS encryption.

An individual can read an email address in the archives using their browser, but bots would have a tough time sorting email addresses from all the other commas in the text, even if they were allowed in to the archives.

Google is ALLOWED to spider the archives because they have agreed to maintain the encryption.

Other bots are not allowed in to spider archiver.

alt en title tags

<img border="0" src="//freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~boltongenealogy/eccles/Eccles_Brothers_WWI[2].jpg" width="114" height="80" alt="Eccles_Brothers_WWI[2].jpg" title="James Eccles b.1897 (left), and his brothers, Matthew b.1899 (centre), and Daniel b.1891 (right), all born in Bolton. James and Daniel were in the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment during WWI.">

The alt tag should include the name of the file (for those who have images disabled)

The title tag should contain the text you want to show when mouse hovers over the image