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Standard talk:2.2 Contrast between foreground and background colours -- Last comment was from Anthony Hawkins at 10:29, 24 June 2008.

Testing criteria

This Standard has no measurement criteria associated with it.

I ..→

Standard talk:1.3 Text description of visual track of a multimedia presentation -- Last comment was from Anne Nelson at 09:40, 10 June 2008.
I have no idea how this standard would be implemented. Is a transcript a list? Is it a definition ..→

Standard talk:Recommendation 4.1.2 Versions and other aspects of a document -- Last comment was from Paul Bennett at 12:35, 6 June 2008.

"If a user requires a particular version and/or any other aspect of the document in..."

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Standard talk:11.2 Mark-up for data and header cells in tables -- Last comment was from Anne Nelson at 16:07, 29 May 2008.

Example not correct?

Just looking at the first example on this page: http://elabs.govt.nz ..→

Talk:Captcha -- Last comment was from Anthony Hawkins at 09:33, 29 May 2008.
From Dan Smith, Chrometoaster --

Some guidelines/standards I'd like to see included in the 'rule book' are:

The ..→

Standard talk:Recommendation 20.1.1 Standards to comply with if requesting user authentication -- Last comment was from Clifton Chan at 12:04, 27 May 2008.
Since the Authentication Standards fall under eGIF, surely they apply to the Public Service and ..→

Standard talk:22.3 Confirmation of information submitted online -- Last comment was from Clifton Chan at 11:54, 27 May 2008.

How are agencies doing this?

Id like to know how agencies are doing this. For example ..→

Standard talk:6.6 Paid advertising not hosted on a site -- Last comment was from Clifton Chan at 11:42, 27 May 2008.

Drawing the line

Interesting to figure out where we draw the line on this one. For ..→

Standard talk:19.3 Client-side personally identifiable data storage -- Last comment was from Clifton Chan at 11:18, 27 May 2008.
So this standard would prohibit session management being placed in the URL. As URLs get recorded ..→

Standard talk:19.2 Rules governing storage of tracking data -- Last comment was from Clifton Chan at 10:58, 27 May 2008.
IRD example: Standard 19.2 > http://www.ird.govt.nz/about-this-site/privacy/privacy-policy.html ..→

Standard talk:Recommendation 4.1.1 Information for users to select their documents to their preference -- Last comment was from Andy Neale at 10:36, 27 May 2008.

"Information for users to select their documents to their preference"

Please have another look ..→

Standard talk:4.2 Publish documents in most accessible format possible -- Last comment was from Anne Nelson at 10:34, 27 May 2008.
There's a conflict here. RTF documents may be more accessible but if they contain images they are ..→

Standard talk:6.2 Agency sites provide consultation documents -- Last comment was from Anthony Hawkins at 10:27, 27 May 2008.

Discussion for this topic

The good examples provided for this standard show the types of ..→

Standard talk:4.1 Document size and type with document links -- Last comment was from Rowan Smith at 01:05, 27 May 2008.
I seem to recall that by default JAWS doesn't read the TITLE element? ..→

Standard talk:4.5 Website special-purpose documents identified as such -- Last comment was from Chris Daish at 20:55, 22 May 2008.

"...and have no ambiguity as to what part thereof on the web site"

Have a look at the GPLv3 ..→

Standard talk:4.4 Website documents for specialist audiences identified as such -- Last comment was from Chris Daish at 20:32, 22 May 2008.
4.4 has got itself into a bit of a tongue-twister. The idea is a simple one, and the standard ..→

Standard talk:Recommendation 32.1.4 Agency having a record-keeping strategy -- Last comment was from Anthony Hawkins at 12:43, 21 May 2008.
Confusion about this. We'd identify who owns and administers the legal requirements and direct ..→

Standard talk:16.3 Minimum content within About This Site -- Last comment was from Anthony Hawkins at 09:46, 20 May 2008.

Re. About this site

We've been implementing this at the MOE for about 12 months. Generally, our ..→

Standard talk:16.6 Copyright of third parties -- Last comment was from Anthony Hawkins at 09:44, 20 May 2008.

Anthony Hawkins on behalf of Richard Best, SSC legal adviser.

==Potential problems with Standard ..→

Standard talk:16.5 Crown Copyright -- Last comment was from Anthony Hawkins at 09:37, 20 May 2008.

From Richard Best, SSC Legal Advisor.

Potential problems and issues with Standard 16.5

As ..→

Standard talk:8.3 Compulsory links on every web page -- Last comment was from Anthony Hawkins at 13:25, 16 May 2008.

This is copied from an email exchange. Dan Smith of Chrometoaster asks:

(1)

Specifically with ..→

Talk:Long documents -- Last comment was from Anthony Hawkins at 11:54, 16 May 2008.
There is a rapidly evolving process on Government web sites to present ‘documents’ as either HTML or document (pdf, ..→

Standard talk:5.3 Expansion of abbreviations and acronyms in a document -- Last comment was from Anne Nelson at 09:49, 9 May 2008.
I'm confused by the W3C examples. I have researched how to use this markup as much as possible and ..→

Standard talk:5.2 Identify the primary natural language of a document -- Last comment was from Konrad Dear at 14:38, 28 April 2008.
There is an excellent article covering this standard at the W3C, http://www.w3.org/International/a ..→

Standard talk:18.1 Minimum web browsers and their respective versions for sites to work in -- Last comment was from Anne Nelson at 16:17, 15 April 2008.
This standard has been ..→

Standard talk:22.2 Descriptive labels tagged -- Last comment was from Grant MacKenzie at 09:10, 15 April 2008.
22.2 Descriptive labels must be tagged as <label> borders on tautology. Also introduces ..→

Standard talk:7.1 Associate labels explicitly with their controls -- Last comment was from Grant MacKenzie at 09:10, 15 April 2008.

Needs to be linked to 22.2

Grant 09:10, 15 April 2008 (NZST)

Standard talk:Recommendation 19.1.2 Server side session state -- Last comment was from Ben Bradshaw at 09:56, 4 April 2008.

19.1.2 Server side session state

This recommendation the way it is worded does not make much ..→

Standard talk:3.4 Relative rather than absolute units -- Last comment was from Matthew Ross at 12:47, 2 April 2008.
There's a really good case for modifying this standard ... for padding and margin effects I'm not ..→

Talk:Handling 404s -- Last comment was from Ben Bradshaw at 14:44, 31 March 2008.
Currently there is nothing in the standards about handling 404 errors. A 404 error occurs when you visit a URL of a site ..→

Standard talk:1.1 Alternative text for every non-text element -- Last comment was from Nathan Wall at 10:58, 17 March 2008.
Possibly we could explore SVG's ..→

Standard talk:8.1 Identify the target of each link -- Last comment was from Ben Bradshaw at 09:51, 17 March 2008.
I'm not convinced JAWS reads title attributes by default, so I think the only safe way to ..→

Standard talk:7.3 Include non-link printable characters between adjacent links -- Last comment was from Ben Bradshaw at 09:42, 17 March 2008.

From an email with Brian Milne:

Standard 7.3 "Include non-link printable characters between ..→

Standard talk:2.1 Information conveyed with colour must be available without colour -- Last comment was from Ben Bradshaw at 09:14, 17 March 2008.

Manual check required on web apps?

Geoff's validator ..→

Talk:Maintaining URL Integrity (reducing linkrot for others) -- Last comment was from Michelle McClellan at 11:57, 12 March 2008.
Many library catalogues link to reports, speeches etc on Government websites. Users are sometimes not considered fully ..→

Talk:Videos -- Last comment was from Matt Lane at 11:40, 7 March 2008.
:Disclaimer: This is my personal opinion, not that of my employer(s) I've been thinking about how Government will have ..→

Standard talk:Recommendation 16.1.2 Provide information about the general layout of a site -- Last comment was from Ben Bradshaw at 11:22, 22 February 2008.

CSS layout for sitemap: http://wordpress.betech.virginia.edu/index.php/2007/10/03/css-sitemap/

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Standard talk:9.1 Organise documents so they may be read without style sheets -- Last comment was from Ben Bradshaw at 08:57, 11 February 2008.

Necessary?

Is this standard really necessary? It's not a bad standard I just think that ..→

Standard talk:Recommendation 6.1.6 Discovery-level URLs are descriptive and less than 50 characters long -- Last comment was from Ben Bradshaw at 08:46, 11 February 2008.
I understand the desire to keep URLs to a decent length, however I don't think that 50 characters ..→

Standard talk:5.7 Provide metadata to pages and sites -- Last comment was from Ben Bradshaw at 08:41, 11 February 2008.
I don't know how much use it is to have meta tags in a page nowadays. I recognise the need for ..→

Standard talk:8.4 Navigation access keys -- Last comment was from Anthony Hawkins at 08:41, 4 February 2008.
Hi, found an article from Brit access consultants Nomensa against access keys, suggesting "skip ..→

Standard talk:15.3 Keyboard shortcuts -- Last comment was from Anthony Hawkins at 09:53, 1 February 2008.
"Imagine, if you will, that the government criteria for accessibility required the use of the ..→

Talk:Netscape finally laid to rest -- Last comment was from Rowan Smith at 08:32, 28 January 2008.
Survivors of the browser war years will feel a touch of sadness, I suspect, to see that Netscape is finally being laid ..→

Standard talk:5.4 Substituting umlauted vowels for macronised vowels -- Last comment was from Grant MacKenzie at 14:40, 21 December 2007.
This standard is getting a bit dusty ... I haven't seen 'Mäori' on an agency web site for ..→

Talk:Geospatial - What information should be made accessible background -- Last comment was from Paul Hughes at 16:42, 19 December 2007.
==What geospatial information should be made accessible background==

Geospatial information underpins our society.

NZ ..→

Talk:Privacy statement for websites -- Last comment was from Rowan Smith at 09:51, 17 December 2007.
I've a question regarding instructions for disabling/enabling cookies in the "Privacy policy" statement. In the UK ..→

Talk:Geospatial - What web channels should be used to deliver accessible information background -- Last comment was from Paul Hughes at 20:33, 16 December 2007.
==File Downloads== The current file formats that can downloaded and read by most geospatial software are considered to ..→

Talk:Geospatial - What information barriers should be used, if at all background -- Last comment was from Paul Hughes at 17:10, 10 December 2007.
What geospatial information barriers should be used, if at all background

Barriers used

Barriers restrict ..→

Talk:Geospatial - Introduction -- Last comment was from Paul Hughes at 17:05, 10 December 2007.
The purpose of these WIKI pages is to provide a forum to progress some of the pressing technical matters that need ..→

Talk:Geospatial - How should information be integrated into a web site background -- Last comment was from Paul Hughes at 14:00, 5 December 2007.
The following suggestions are provided as background:

Namespace

Unless a standard is set, agencies are likely to ..→

Talk:Geospatial - how should information be integrated into a web site -- Last comment was from Paul Hughes at 13:54, 5 December 2007.
==Web integration==

There is a need to incorporate geospatial information into a web site in several ways:

1. A clear link ..→

Talk:Geospatial - What web channels should be used to deliver accessible information -- Last comment was from Paul Hughes at 20:39, 29 November 2007.
==Web channels==

There are several web channels or technical ways to deliver accessible geospatial information

• File ..→

Talk:Geospatial - What information barriers should be used, if at all -- Last comment was from Paul Hughes at 12:29, 20 November 2007.
==What geospatial information barriers should be used, if at all== Barriers restrict geospatial information use in the ..→

Talk:Geospatial - What information should be made accessible -- Last comment was from Paul Hughes at 12:26, 20 November 2007.
==What geospatial information should be made accessible?== The NZ and international community stands to gain immensely ..→

Standard talk:Recommendation 3.1.1 Use appropriate mark-up language when it exists -- Last comment was from Pete McVicar at 12:24, 20 November 2007.

Structured Markup

Would it be 'inappropriate' to suggest that this recommendation is perhaps ..→

Standard talk:6.1 Agency sites provide publicly available reports -- Last comment was from Jamie Mackay at 16:20, 19 November 2007.
The good examples provided for this standard show the types of reports that should be made ..→

Standard talk:Recommendation 6.1.5 Avoid the usage of underscores in URLs -- Last comment was from AnneMarie Curtis at 12:09, 19 November 2007.

Designing URLs

• See Notes:Web_site_design_and_operation#Designing_URLs

Standard talk:3.2 Use elements to convey document structure and mark up lists properly -- Last comment was from Rowan Smith at 21:34, 15 November 2007.

How do you test this Standard?

If I suggested the following rule of thumb, can anyone think ..→

Talk:Overall look and feel of the WIki site -- Last comment was from Rowan Smith at 21:02, 15 November 2007.
Just a bouquet to the Site's designers. The overall high level page is GREAT for All_Standards - clear and indexes ..→

Talk:Web Standards -- Last comment was from AnneMarie Curtis at 15:50, 12 November 2007.
Log in and edit this page to add suggestions or requests for ways to make the New Zealand Web Standards and ..→

Talk:Versioning -- Last comment was from AnneMarie Curtis at 15:47, 12 November 2007.
This wiki is intended to encourage robust debate around any changes which may be required to the ..→

Talk:Rowan testing -- Last comment was from Rowan Smith at 14:55, 9 November 2007.