Hi Ron, You wrote:
> ... but if you think that's the way to go... Yes for most purposes, it is--I don't use any screen readers but I suppose they indulge in some version of "Hey this material is data set in a table format to make the relationships more clear." and follow with an effort to use the table markup to help show the person who needs that help what information is presented. I imagine, **at best**, this would be annoying if the screen reader tried to "explain" the tabular relationships of your blocks of text, columns, and graphic elements! At worst, it could (but, keep in mind, I am not a lawyer) make a governmental or business site vulnerable to lawsuit or even a violation of law if it should become a matter of user complaint. That leaves us with CSS as the primary way to go. > Actually, the W3C site has been, in fact, > one of the deterrents ... I agree finding out how can be difficult. I think you should try Googling CSS tutorials and look through some that look helpful to you where you are right now on this. > ... but in order to accomplish that I also > have *totally* re-learn practically every- >thing I learned in the past. Ultimately, yes, but you can start small. Try a few things with a local-file version of some of your material; I have my work notes organized in an outline format with a few photos floated right (major headings do the clear). It sure beats the yellow- loose-leaf-folder-that-becomes-a-shelfful approach; if the boss would let us use a DB program, I'm sure it could be done as a very messy database but this works fairly well. > ... designing with CSS seems to be (or, at > least, be becoming) more like learning a > hard-core programming language ... Yes I see the similarity, but at least it doesn't involve nested if clauses LOL. > ... but I would still aspire to actually > *understanding* what exactly I'm doing ... Understanding will come slowly given that it is outside the purpose of this list, but I think it will come. -- Regards, Gene Falck gfa...@merr.com ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
