Re: FN-FORUM: accessibility issues... (accesskey mainly)

date posted 7th August 2004 18:39

On 7 Aug 2004, at 18:39, Paul Evans wrote:

> it was never *that* bad, and it has improved since last I looked
> (background colours added to main menu options). And the way the main
> menu options had previously dropped behind the head-and-shoulder pics
> was the main problem - now solved.

ahh yeah - the way you are seeing it in Safari et al is the way it
always intended to look - and was only working properly in IE5 on mac
(strangely!)

the white swoosh and nav was always meant to be above everything - i
had to fiddle with how i made the head and shoulder pics appear. seems
that using position relative or absolute immediately made them appear
above everything - z-Index not having any effect here as the head and
shoulder pics are in a separate DIV to the navigation items and
'swoosh' graphic...

i fixed it now by having the head pics positioned via margin and
padding - which seems to be working in all modern browsers.


> The only outstanding nit-pick is on max text size (in safari), the 3rd
> menu option overwrites some of the page content. If you allowed the
> options to remain on one line, i.e. allowed them to extend right this
> wouldn't be an issue.

yep, that is a problem... i tried using min-width instead of width on
the nav bars - but it doesn't appear to work as it says on the tin...

cheers for the nit picking - it can really help drive a thing forward
when someone points out its failings :-D

luke

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