Re: FN-FORUM: Accessibility Check

date posted 20th March 2006 12:01

IFrames are not inherently inaccessible - or at least no more so than
normal frames - but from what I can tell you can make them a lot better
if you put some alternative text inside the iframe tag which can then be
displayed if the user browser does not handle frames for whatever reason.

If I were designing the scroller I would put it into a styled div rather
than using another page to show the data because that way I could be
sure the data was all there in the page if the user did have anything
odd going on with their browser.

-ben

D D Glendinning wrote:

>Morning All,
>
>I m doing a little bit of work for one of the departments at the
>university. In the link below, I have mocked up a few ideas. One of
>them being a scroll box for events.. If you see this, you can notice
>that it stops when hovered over, and other than a bit of plain
>javascript to make it work, and being database driven, it doesn't get
>any simpler.
>Ignoring all other elements of the page, can any of you see any
>accessibility issues regarding this scroll, and any answers to them if
>you can?
>
>http://www.bath.ac.uk/lifelong-learning/test/
>
>Kind Regards
>
>Duncan
>
>
>