Re: Malformed site (partly OT).

In message <44f5489854.pnyoung@pnyoung.ormail.co.uk>
Peter Young <pnyoung@ormail.co.uk> wrote:

>I maintain the website of the local branch of the Multiple Sclerosis
>Society, at www.mssociety.org.uk/cheltenham (NB I am only responsible
>for the content, not the formatting). From time to time the site gets
>seriously malformed in RISC OS NetSurf, and then a few days later goes
>back to what is should be. Screenshots of this are at
>http://pnyoung.orpheusweb.co.uk/Chrome.jpg as it should be in Chrome on Windows and
>http://pnyoung.orpheusweb.co.uk/NetSurf.jpg as it was yesterday in NetSurf #2600, but it's back to how it should be this morning! Same NetSurf build.
>
>I imagine this is the fault of the site rather than of NetSurf, but I
>would value comments. (OT) If it is the fault of the site, I have a
>feeling that they may be contravening guidance about website
>accessibility for disabled people, and I would be interested in
>comments about this also.
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Peter.
>
I saved the HTML (using Netsurf #2600 and it apeared to present OK with
some very minor problems at the bottom of the page)
and ran it through http://validator.w3.org/
It came up with 9 errors. I have not examined these in detail and
cannot say whether these are the cause of the problem and I don't
have sufficient expertise to comment about the website accessibility
for disabled people. However a first step might be to rectify the
errors so that the HTML conforms to XHML 1.0 and see whether that
helps!

Regards,

--
Graham Pickles
www.whitbymuseum.org.uk Whitby Museum
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. (M. Kathleen Casey)