Monday, November 23, 2009

study questions

1. What is meant by accessibility standards?
-accessibility standards are there to organize and highlight. Web Accessibility, Introducing Accessibility, Guidelines & Techniques, Managing Accessibility, Evaluating Accessibility, and WAI Groups.
2. How can color create a barrier to content?
-Color creates a barrier to content so that it can be presented in different ways. So information can be conveyed with color and is also available without color.
3. Why is it important to provide a way for users to skip the navigation list?
-It is very important to have a skip navigation list because almost all keyboard users are forced to tab through all of the top links in order to reach the main content
4. What is meant by providing “ALT Text” to the user?
-The ALT text is meant to provide alternative or substitute text, primarily for use when the image is not being displayed.
5. What is the difference between Section 508 and WCAG 1.0?
-508 standards relate to lower priority checkpoints from the Web Accessibility Initiative. The view of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines lists only the priority one checkpoints The Section 508 view includes priority 2 and 3 checkpoints in the comparison.
6. How does design differ from style?
-Design differs from style in many ways, style is the creation, color, and pattern that everyone is using to create their own creation without taking the time to really think and create their own pattern and color. They would rather use someone else's time and patience. Style is the same eye catching colors that a lot of people are using. Design is the key to success, it draws a line between those that work harder than others. Design is the thought process that helps those creators design the best and original designs.
7. Why is it important to separate content from presentation?
-Content and presentation need to be separate for the reason that they are very much alike. The presentation is what helps those observers visualize the topic your talking about. Content is the back-up pictures, video and examples that are their to better help you explain your idea.
8. Why is it important to validate our mark-up & CSS?
-Validation is one of the simplest ways to check whether a page is built in accordance with Web standards, and provides one of the most reliable guarantee that future Web platforms will handle it as designed.
9. What are the two major parts of a CSS rule?
-The first part of the rule is the type of selector whether it be an html selector, a class, or an ID. The selector is followed by a space and then a beginning curly brace.
-Details and rules are important. With CSS you can set up rules (or definitions) to tell specific HTML tags how to display content, or you can create generic rules and apply them to tags when you need them.
10. Define these CSS properties: float, margin, padding, and border.
-The float property is most commonly applied to images and divs and accepts the value of right, left, or none.
-Margins define the space surrounding an element.
-Padding sets the amount of space inside of a block element.
-Border controls enable you to add a visible border around an area.
11. Define these CSS properties: font-family, font-size, line-height, letter-spacing.
-The font family attribute selects the font typeface.
-CSS supports three ways that you can incorporate font sizes in a Web page:Absolute,Relative and Percentage
-Line height may be defined in the shortcut property.
-The letter-spacing attribute controls the amount of white space that is inserted between letters in words.
12. What is the “Box Model?”
-You can apply box styles to block-level elements. Includes Content, Border, Padding and Margin.
13. What is the difference between a CSS class and an ID?
-Div Id is unique. div class u can use any number of times in page
14. What is the difference between a DIV and a SPAN?
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tags are block-level elements, whereas tags are not.
15. How does the “Cascade” relate to the conflicts in CSS rules?
-This is the primary Cascade sorting method. Style rules occurring in the browser default style sheet have the lowest precedence. Reader style sheets take precedence over browser style sheets, and Author style sheets take precendence over both of these.
16. What is the purpose of the Document Type Declaration?
-is a set of markup declarations that define a document type for SGML-family markup languages html
17. What is the difference between a browser’s “quirks” mode and it’s “standards” model?
-Quirk mode is the prime source for browser compatibility information on the Internet.
18. Define inline, embedded, and external (aka. local, global, and linked) stylesheets?
-Inline style sheet within a tag. Applies only to that particular occurance of that tag.
-Embedded) style sheet is defined within the head section of a page. Applies to that page only
-External style sheet defined in a separate, hence external, file. Applies to all pages that link to the external style sheet.

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