ZEN The Road to Enlightenment... or NOT?

http://www.csszengarden.com/

At the bottom of their page there is a small list of "Validations"

One of which got me concerned, call me pedantic and a man of Accessibility and Guidelines however on a website that's rather highly commended for the accomplishments of making CSS a very viable and professional way of creating a really good looking website has an annoying edge of promoting itself as a WAI - AAA Website, when it clearly is far from.


"There is clearly a need for CSS to be taken seriously by graphic artists"


Can they not take the rest of the web world serious also?


It actually fails Priority 3 for these issues:


9.4 Create a logical tab order through links, form controls, and objects.

• Rule: 9.4.1 - All Anchor, AREA, BUTTON, INPUT, OBJECT, SELECT and TEXTAREA elements are required to use the 'tabindex' attribute.
  • Warning - One or more Anchor, AREA, BUTTON, INPUT, OBJECT, SELECT and TEXTAREA elements do not use the 'tabindex' attribute

9.5 Provide keyboard shortcuts to important links (including those in client-side image maps), form controls, and groups of form controls.

• Rule: 9.5.1 - All Anchor, AREA, BUTTON, INPUT, LABEL, LEGEND, and TEXTAREA elements are required to use the 'accesskey' attribute.
  • Warning - One or more Anchor, AREA, BUTTON, INPUT, LABEL, LEGEND, and TEXTAREA elements do not use the 'accesskey' attribute.

10.5 Until user agents (including assistive technologies) render adjacent links distinctly, include non-link, printable characters (surrounded by spaces) between adjacent links.

• Rule: 10.5.1 - All Anchor elements not surrounding images cannot be directly adjacent.
  • Failure - Anchor Element found at Line: 87, Column: 4 is directly adjacent to the Anchor element that precedes it.
  • Failure - Anchor Element found at Line: 88, Column: 4 is directly adjacent to the Anchor element that precedes it.
  • Failure - Anchor Element found at Line: 89, Column: 4 is directly adjacent to the Anchor element that precedes it.
  • Failure - Anchor Element found at Line: 90, Column: 4 is directly adjacent to the Anchor element that precedes it.

A website at the forefront of promoting real techniques for web design should surely conform themselves?

Thoughts?


It wouldn't surprise me to find if Dave Shea changes his source, and I have already been in plenty of previous contacts with him.. and as Brilliant at some things he is, completely ignorant to others his seems to be!

So this one is for you Dave Shea! As requested!