Monday, 4 February 2008

Personal Research Project: Artefact 3 -HTML markups

For this 3rd Artefact, I looked into HTML markups which is one of the typical Web Accessible issues. Alot of web sites today have been programmed to be inaccurate or incomplete HTML markup. This is one of the “typical” accessibility issues that have failed miserably when analysed through the W3C’s online mark up validators. If the document is poorly coded, users of assistive technology will find it difficult or even impossible with navigating their way through the website.
Using the W3C’s online markup validator (http://validator.w3.org) I evaluated the inaccessible homepage document to see whether or not it was poorly coded. From the results I established that there were 64 errors found. Typical issues were found, for example the incorrect html structure might look like this:





Therefore to make it accessible, I corrected the html markups by using simple codes for example:


When correcting the HTML structure in my accessibility document, it has come to my consideration that it took longer to code the web page than I thought it would be. Although the codes were very simple, I was more familiar coding the incorrect way. The correct HTML markups made a huge difference to the overall website. As the correct html coding, there is only a limited of choices to changing the font size which gives it the downfall i.e.


Whereas the incorrect html coding you are able to change the font size i.e.

But the advantage of the standard markup would be is that the HTML document is easier to read.