PaulaO

Section 508 is a federal law that originally set guidelines just for federal websites. However, since it is more attainable than the Website Accessibility Initiative (WAI), which is the A, AA, and AAA ratings.

The WAI is a good standard, but a difficult standard to live up to. It is not just to make a website accessible for all sorts of people with disabilities, but also to old browsers, different browsers, different languages, etc. If it is the Bobby logo you want, aim for A and hope for AA. Even only a few of my pages are AAA approved.

The Section 508 is a more realistic goal. The main thing, if you are doing this for people who are blind, is if the tab button jumps from link to link, it is accessible at the lowest level. BUT, it is how and what order it jumps that can make a difference. It jumps horizontally, which can make table layout tricky.

Some software that I found to be a valuable tool is A-Prompt. It not only evaluates your site, but helps you to fix it. The vast majority of people can’t follow along with what Bobby has to say but there are other evaluation software and sites that are more user friendly.

https://aprompt.snow.utoronto.ca/
https://www.w3.org/WAI/Resources/#er (resources for other evaluation software)

https://www.usdoj.gov/crt/508/508home.html
https://www.section508.gov/
https://www.icanonline.net/sitemap.cfm (scroll way down to Technology>Section 508)

https://www.access-board.gov/indexes/accessindex.htm

https://www.w3.org/WAI/

Keeping in mind that I learn mostly through my own mistakes, I’d check to see if the image is still there in your folders. I tried to view the image, to see if I got a File 404, but got an ‘access denied’ instead.

If your background color is white and your text is white, with the header image gone, that’s what you’d see.

Me again. I uploaded the original side bar, after switching to Batavia. It has less bells and whistles than my Gila theme which is full of my crap.

I didn’t change the code any that was originally in the sidebar, which has the ‘if function exists…’ part already in place.

Reloaded page. The parse error is gone but the original error is back.

It is in the sidebar and the style switcher is still off.

I guess I’ll force my few visitors to like whatever theme I’m in the mood for. heh heh

It is in the sidebar.

I didn’t think I had uploaded the style switcher but I checked and it was there and on.

So, turned it off and now I get another error. By putting in line breaks, I have narrowed it down to the <? php } ?> (spaced added on purpose). The error is a
Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in (blah blah sidebar.php) line 87

I have the opposite problem! I have it set so that anyone can reply, no moderation, yet they are all moderated, even my own!!

I came here to see if anyone else had the same problem. Heh, sorta not exactly but close enough?

Paula O.