[Opensource] Proposal: DBMaint UI Review

[Michael Rimov]

At 11:52 AM 7/30/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Just a thought, have you followed accessibility guidelines in these? 508
>compliance is becoming an important checkmark item, and a redesign seems
>like a good time to think through some of those issues. One service you
>can use to test for this is
>http://bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/html/en/index.jsp, I'm sure there's
>lots of others.

Stephen,

Excellent point!

For those lurking, I've found the following specification site:
http://www.access-board.gov/sec508/guide/1194.22.htm

So I went a'diggin and have modified the following:

Tag TableHead now emits: scope="col" attributes in the th cells.
Tag DBMaint now emits: scope="row" for the first primary key it comes across

Added <label for=""/> for all the add/update/search pages.

The only guideline that hasn't now been implemented is the ability to skip 
the navigation blocks.  Perhaps we could get some volunteers to work on that?

Other than that:
         -All styles are defined externally
         -All images have 'alt' tags
         -No javascript that is incompatible with screen readers
         -No requirement that color definition defines the page.
         -No ImageMaps

I'm DEFINITELY not an expert, but perhaps that will give folks a decent 
start in this area.  No matter what, I believe that with the page design, 
it wouldn't be hard to tweak it for any missing pieces.

Again, thanks for the input!!
                                                 -Mike