Supersonic Feet

Following various links multiple levels (and sites) down last night I came across a link to a new consortium, the Web Accessibility Tools Consortium (WAT-C), who are working on developing (surprise, surprise) a number of tools for monitoring the accessibility of web sites.

There are only a couple done so far, but the readability test is pretty cool, providing an overview of the textual content of a web site and rating its ease of reading (or readability if you will).

This site does pretty well, getting 74.56/100 on the Flesch Reading Ease test, though I'm not sure whether that means I'm just not writing very intelligent posts (probably the case as I've so far used this blog largely to post links to pictures).

The readability test is quite useful though and is another handy tool in the arsenal of web developers in analyzing web sites to make sure they're both accessible and relevant to the target audience(s).

One comes across a lot of strange bugs in designing websites, but until yesterday I'd thankfully avoided a strange one with Netscape 7.0 and earlier whereby if you float a label tag it'll disappear.

Of course you'd hope people would upgrade their browsers, but most don't (including the client who spotted the problem) so I ended up havinf to float the inputs right instead of the labels left. Small irritation, but they mount up.

EPV0036 The Maser Miglia finished and a couple of days' lounging over and I'm back from the USA.

The rally was great fun and the Grand Canyon stunning. Plenty of fine supercars, both new and old.

There are only a few photos up on flickr so far, but I'll gradually add more.