"Summer Fling Thing" by WebsUnlimited will
offer a FREE DOWNLOAD of LTMod's
PageTools "2.5" as a purchase incentive under
exclusive rights through the end of July.
This download is only available to new
customers who purchase J-Bots Plus 2002 or
Suite 3.
Along with the FREE PageTools, they have
discounted the package an additional 15% for
this great sales event!!! DON'T WAIT!! Go to http://www.anyfrontpage.com/bytes/jbots.htm
~~~~++++SPONSOR AD++++~~~~~
GENERALLY SPEAKING
~ AnyFrontPage Bytes News:
Getting ready for Independence Day? This issue
focuses mainly on Accessibility issues with
Web design, but while you are working to
ensure that your site meets accessibility
requirements, as you will learn more about in
this issue, why not spruce up your site with
some patriotic graphics. With the links and
resources we have found for you on the 'net -
you could even apply an entire patriotic
theme to your site - isn't FrontPage the greatest!
Show your patriotism and have fun decorating
your site for the 4th of July. We have listed
many links to free and fun patriotic graphics,
themes and templates below under the General
Resources section. ENJOY!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This issue's birthday present goes to Paul
Favre who celebrated a birthday on the 10th of
June! Paul's birthday present is an autographed
copy of Essential FrontPage 2002 For Web
Professionals, by Tiffany K. Edmonds. We hope
that you will enjoy your birthday and your
present from AnyFrontPage Bytes!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Be a WINNER! Register your birthday at: [ out of date link - removed ] to
be entered into our random drawings held at
least once a month. Kewl prizes - great
software and other goodies offered by our
Sponsors. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
↑ Top
TIPS AND TRICKS
ADDING ALT TAGS WITH THE FP REPLACE
TOOL
One way to use FrontPage, is to go through all
of the pages of your site - look for images and
add the ALT text necessary to meet
accessibility requirements (and aid users with
disabilities in browsing your Web site). Use
the FP find and replace tool. It won't completely
automate the task, however it will help ensure
that all of your images are coded with the ALT
tag without having to open each page, look for
an image, right click, select picture properties,
etc.
In FrontPage with your Web open go to EDIT >
REPLACE (Ctrl+H)
In the 'Find What' box type <img
In the 'Replace With' box type
<img alt="graphic"
Under the Find where section, check the option
for All pages. Also check the option to Find in
HTML.
Click the Find In Web button FrontPage will
search all pages for the <img> tag and display a
list of pages with the number of occurrences
found on that page in the Replace dialog box.
You have a couple of options at this point.
1. double click one of the pages listed. FP will
open that page in HTML view with the first
occurrence highlighted. The replace dialog box
will be on top and you can change the alt value
from "graphic" to a more descriptive name for
that particular occurrence if you choose. Click
the replace button and FP will move to the next
occurrence on that page. You can use the same
alt value for the next occurrence, or again
change the value to a more descriptive value.
When you have worked through each
occurrence on the page you will be prompted
with an alert box that you are finished with the
page, a check box to save and close the page,
and a button to return to the list where you can
begin this process again on another page in the
list.
2. If you would like to use a default alt value,
such as "graphic" for all images on the pages of
your web, you could (in FP 2002) choose to
click the Replace All button and FP will
automatically replace all occurrences on all
pages for you. FrontPage 2000 users will be
prompt to save and close each and every page,
however FrontPage 2002 will actually replace All
without having to save and close each page
manually.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Image maps
Use the client-side map and text for hotspots.
Client-side image maps are more user-friendly
for those with assistive technologies. A Client
Side Image Map (CSIM) contains all of the
information required for an image map within the
HTML file which references the image. Using
hotspots on a graphical menu is not
encouraged, It's more efficient to use separate
images or simple text. A map is a great
example of proper use of Image Maps.
Hotspot Tooltips makes it easy to add popup
tooltips to your image maps!
It's best to provide a descriptive link also. Use a
D-link, which is a descriptive link that provides a
narrative of the image (e.g., a chart). The link
(using the character D and linking this character
to another html file) is generally placed
immediately after the image. It is important to
keep the hotspot titles and the text alternative
(not the same as alt text) the same.
- Multimedia
Provide captioning and transcripts of audio, and
descriptions of video. Compiled multimedia
products often have serious accessibility
problems. This is because they do not have a
standard interface; the whole point of the
product is to provide a customised and attractive
interface that often changes as the media are
viewed. Ideally, sound and video components
will have accompanying transcriptions. You can
now Download this Free, do-it-yourself caption-
and description- authoring tool for digital
multimedia developed by the CPB/WGBH
National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM)
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
(SMIL), QuickTime, and Synchronized
Accessible Media Interchange all support
synchronized multimedia presentations with
captioning. If you provide multimedia files in
special formats, you should link to where a
player can be downloaded.
What does Website Accessibility mean to you?
What does it mean to your web site?
The concept is simple - the rules are many
With the space available here at AnyFrontPage,
we will really only skim the surface of this
subject to give you a good overview and will
include links for additional reading.
A larger listing of accessibility links, applications
and forums etc can be found at: [ out of date link - removed ]
The primary - and also the last - word must
come from W3C, the organization that is
responsible for standards in web design and
websites. http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/
Their reasoning and rulings boil down to
"equivalent". Just as some people can't see
(images, movies, applets, etc.) and others can't
hear (sounds, music, etc.) directly, they may be
given equivalent information to the visual or
auditory content. This equivalent information
must serve the same purpose as the 'replaced'
content. A text equivalent for a graphic, for
example, may be as simple as a brief alt tag.
ALT-text descriptions can provide an
accessibility feature for disabled viewers and
those that browse pages in text-mode. This
alternative description could contain a keyword
-- hopefully reinforcing your page theme with
certain Engines. On the Web, the "sightless
population" includes the robots of search
engines. (Since the search engines' robots are
text-only and generally support only HTML 2.0,
accessibility can be a significant advantage in
getting favourably indexed by the search
engines. Sites that hide content in ALT-less
images are hurting their chances of being found
by users.)
Some images & animations can be more
difficult. Web pages specify pictures in HTML
source code using IMG (image) elements.
These elements can carry various attributes,
among which is ALT-text, an alternative
representation describing what an image or
animation depicts -- (if not visible).
W3C has established Priorities and
Checkpoints to make life easier for us. Each
checkpoint has a priority level based on the
checkpoint's impact on accessibility.
Techniques for complying with the highest
(mandatory) priority checkpoint can be found at http://www.anyfrontpage.com/bytes/rd/w3ctext.htm
This great guideline specifies alt tags for many
different situations and non-text content that
might be found on your web site.
Now, why might someone not be able to access
your web page as-is? Disabilities are an
obvious answer, but someone who is not
normally hearing or sight impaired may be
impaired by their COMPUTER! AnyFrontPage
will have a future issue on making your website
backwards compatible and how to be
accessible to those browsers that don't support
Frames.
See above in this issue for information about the
FREE Addon AccVerify. SE for FrontPage.
This software provides a complete checklist for
standards that must be manually verified to take
you 100% of the way to an accessible Web site.
Be sure to check your site for missing alt tags.
TP_ErrOmi2 FREE FrontPage 2k/02 Addon http://solution-shelf.com This FrontPage Addon
helps you detect (and correct) problems that
can reduce Search Engine rank, page display
speed, and accessibility compliance. It
accomplishes these tasks by following a
prescribed series of steps that are user
selectable, via Options Dialog.
- Images & animations.
Web pages specify pictures in HTML source
code using IMG (image) elements. These
elements can carry various attributes, among
which is ALT-text, an alternative representation
describing what an image or animation depicts --
(if not visible). ALT-text descriptions can provide
an accessibility feature for disabled viewers and
those that browse pages in text-mode. This
alternative description could contain a keyword
-- hopefully reinforcing your page theme with
certain Engines. On the Web, the "sightless
population" includes the robots of search
engines. Since the search engines' robots are
text-only and generally support only HTML 2.0,
accessibility can be a significant advantage in
getting favourably indexed by the search
engines. Sites that hide content in ALT-less
images are hurting their chances of being found
by users.
Its a good idea to ensure that all your (visible)
images carry this text to describe what was
visually intended. This makes your site a bit
more accessible and friendly.
Checking your site for missing alt tags.
TP_ErrOmi2 FREE FrontPage 2k/02 Addon http://solution-shelf.com
This FrontPage Addon helps you detect (and
correct) problems that can reduce Search
Engine rank, page display speed, and
accessibility compliance. It accomplishes these
tasks by following a prescribed series of steps
that are user selectable, via Options Dialog.
After initial set-up, you're ready for basic page
optimization, specifically the following areas;
position errors (Title, DOCTYPE)
element omissions (Title, DOCTYPE)
attribute omissions (Image dimensions &
ALT-Text)
meta-tag omissions (Description, Keywords,
Rating, Robots, etc.)
other warnings (no page background, remote
source images)
This tool not only checks for missing alt tags
but can add image dimensions at the same
time, thereby decreasing your page load time.
Position and element errors and omissions like
DocTypes can also be dealt with in the following
manner. How do I declare a default DOCTYPE in
my new web pages? http://www.anyfrontpage.com/bytes/rd/spidr.htm
DocTypes explain exactly what type of
document your Web server is serving, the user's
browsing technologies will be able to present
that document in the most effective manner.
Meta-tag omissions including ratings can also
be checked over to a further EXTENT by using
the FREE Addon AccVerify. SE for
FrontPage. http://www.hisoftware.com/msacc/index.html
which provides verification and reports all
errors/non-compliance with accessibility policy
and standards for Web sites under the WCAG
1.0 P1-P3 Guidelines and the Section 508
standards. In addition, the software provides a
complete checklist for standards that must be
manually verified to take you 100% of the way to
an accessible Web site.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
******************************
Tina is editor of AnyFrontPage Bytes and
is the webmaster for http://accessfp.net/ ,
a classic FP resource. Tina's articles & Tips
have been published in various newsletters
and websites. She is a moderator on our Forum.
Tiffany is the webmaster for http://www.at-frontpage.com , a premier
FrontPage website including resource links, free
add-ons and over a hundred Tutorials. Tiffany is
author of the bestselling "Essential FrontPage
2002 for Webmasters". She is a moderator on
our Forum.
and
Frances is editor of AnyFrontPage Bytes and
an expert in the field of search engine
optimization, Frances' articles have been
published in various newsletters and websites. http://www.Dynamite-iT.com She is a
moderator on our Forum.
******************************
VOTE! ~ VOTE! ~ VOTE! ~
Let us know what you think about this article at
our Article Poll. Your feedback will help us bring
you just the information you want! [ out of date link - removed ] VOTE! ~ VOTE! ~ VOTE! ~
~~~~~~~~++++SPONSOR AD++++~~~~~~~
Enborne - Enborne - Enborne
LIMITED TIME special for AnyFrontPage
Subscribers HAS BEEN EXTENDED: A very
special SPECIAL on their custom-designed
Themes Installer program! Size - just 52Kb. The
Wizard included in the developer toolkit makes
packaging your themes and templates a snap!
PACKAGE AND MARKET your own add-on
themes professionally!
Normally $50.00. Only $40.00 for AnyFrontPage
subscribers for a LIMITED TIME - DON'T MISS!!
Our Featured Site this issue is such an
overwhelming resource that it is difficult to know
which feature to laud first. The State of
Connecticut Management Advisory Committee
(COnneCT) has our thanks for this winner, http://www.state.ct.us/cmac/ .
Let's begin with the Resource page, http://www.cmac.state.ct.us/resource.htm,
since they were kind enough to list FrontPage
as the "BEST website management tool". LOL
Take a look at the many free "AdMetools"
available for promoting your site and testing and
tracking its popularity.
As this issue of AnyFrontPage is focused on
Accessibility, do not miss "Online Usability" by
by T.Matthew Ciolek, http://www.ciolek.com/PAPERS/AACMC/AccessTop.html
an excellent guide to procedures and practices
which make your site more accessible.
Many thanks to Kathleen Anderson of
Spiderwebwoman.com for suggesting this site to
AnyFrontPage
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Special Freebie Accessibility Find:
AccVerify. SE - FREE ADDON http://www.hisoftware.com/msacc/
AccVerify. SE for FrontPage provides
verification and reports all errors of
non-compliance with accessibility policy and
standards for Web sites under the WCAG 1.0
P1-P3 Guidelines and the Section 508
standards. In addition, the software provides a
complete checklist for standards that must be
manually verified to take you all the way to an
accessible Web site.
This product is available at no cost to all users
of Microsoft FrontPage. Download AccVerify SE
Now!
SimonBots PopUpWindow - FREE NEW
ADD-IN
Created by Simon Haddad and offered by
At-FrontPage.com, SimonBot PopUpWindow
addin is free and awesome! Now, you can code
pop up windows as easily as inserting a graphic
or text in FP. The add-in is highly configurable
with simple point and click - set pop ups to
open onClick, onLoad, onMousever and more.
Adding quick tip pop ups, or configuring a
thumbnail image to open a full size graphic in a
pop up window has NEVER been easier. Check
it out: http://www.at-frontpage.com/SimonBots
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Document Manager - FREE NEW ADD-IN http://www.anyfrontpage.com/bytes/rd/doc.htm
This add-in allows users to open/save and close
multiple documents. Quickly select a document
from the list of open documents. Additionally,
users can see files by filenames or by TITLE
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Document Selector - FREE NEW ADD-IN http://www.anyfrontpage.com/bytes/rd/dsel.htm
This add-in allows users to quickly select a
document from the list of open documents.
Additionally, users can see files by filenames or
by TITLE.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
FrontPage Database Troubleshooting Utility http://www.anyfrontpage.com/bytes/rd/dbtrbl.htm
The FrontPage Database Troubleshooting Utility
checks for the following items that may cause a
Database Results Region page to fail: - The
absence of a Global.asa file. - Whether the
Global.asa file is running. - Whether the
Global.asa file is running outside of the Web. -
The absence of any database connections in the
Web.
Accessibility http://www.microsoft.com/enable/
Learn about built-in accessibility features in
Microsoft products that you can adjust to meet
your needs and preferences. ------------------------------------------------------
~~~~~~~++++SPONSOR AD++++~~~~~~~~~
YOU DON'T HAVE TO START OVER
ANYMORE!!!
Chameleon. software can change your website
color scheme in seconds. Change the contrast
of the whole page, make colors warmer, or give
a complete twist to the colors of your site.
Chameleon makes it a snap! Modify the color of
your text, links, tables, background etc.
Test your knowledge of some of the hottest
software on the 'net! Enter your name and email
address for a chance to win this fantastic
Chameleon software. [ out of date link - removed ]
Your FrontPage Community Interactive Ezine: bringing you
Goodies, Links, News & Tutorials that that you can't find
elsewhere
CURRENT ISSUE:
FrontPage News
Main Article
Links and Resources
AnyFrontPage Bytes SPONSORS:
Essentials FrontPage 2002 For Web
Professionals.
by: Tiffany K. Edmonds
AnyFrontPage Scoop
Sign up now to AnyFrontPage Bytes and obtain your FREE FrontPage E-books.
We have a new look and we are still filled to the brim with FrontPage delights.
Although we make an effort to check out every advertisement and link. We cannot assume responsibility for the actions of our advertisers, or the availability of links. You use the information provided at your own risk, it is always
wise to back up your data before editing.
Please help promote
AnyFrontPage Bytes by linking to our site. Instructions on how to link can be found on our FAQ page
FORWARD:
Please feel free to forward this newsletter to any of your associates who might benefit
from this information.
If you are receiving this issue as a forward, and would like to get your own free subscription, please see subscription management above. When you subscribe you
will be eligible to receive five FREE E-books, "FrontPage Newbie Secrets" and "Microsoft FrontPage Fanzine Archives" 1999 -2000, Plus 2001, 2002 and 2003.
As well as being able to enter competitions and contents.
This FREE publication by AnyFrontPage Bytes is sent ONLY to people who have requested it.
If you do not wish to receive e-mail from us in the future, click here to remove your name from our mailing list. You can also
manage your membership at any time by visiting our AnyFrontPage community homepage or by sending blank emails to the following email addresses: To SUBSCRIBE to this Ezine:
AnyFrontPageBytes-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
To UNSUBSCRIBE from this Newsletter: AnyFrontPageBytes-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
.gif){kind=small}
