Hi Guys I have have been running boards since the Ikonboard days and I quickly moved across to IPB when Matt and Charles released the first version of the IPB. I will start by saying that the software has evolved in leaps and bounds and I love it.

The three areas I believe you need to pay considerable attention in the next version are:

1) SEO: I believe you plan on seriously improving this is release 3.0 that great news, I do hope you allow for FURL's.
2) Web Accessibility: This task should not be all that big, as an example changing the <b> to <strong> should not take all that long. The biggest issue I have come across is how scattered this issue is. I found it in Lang files, templates, Java script etc..
3) WC3 compliance:
This is a serious issue. I have managed to make my site 99% compliant but of course there are a few things that I can not improve as they are software related. For example emicon and BB code.

Here is an example of the extent of the problem.

• FORUM VIEW (4 error, 3 warnings)
• TOPIC VIEW (63 errors, 45 warnings)
• BLOG VIEW (114 errors)
• BLOG MEMBER (42 errors, 21 warnings)
• BLOG ENTRY (91 errors, 3 warnings)
• GALLERY VIEW (77 errors, 60 warnings)
• GALLERY CAT (120 errors, 92 warnings)
• GALLERY MEMBER (40 errors, 20 warnings)

The three main issues I came across:

• Missing alt tags inside <img> e.g. Alt=’’
• The use of & in code and url’s instead of &amp;
• The duplication of ID’s in a page

There are certainly some code related issue but in general these are minor and just time consuming to locate. All in all it has taken me three days to bring the site into compliance so this task should not be all that big an an issue to solve. As a customer I just don't feel like going through the exercise every time a new release comes out.

Cheers
zeroanarchy

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