It means forcing your website (or less frequently your desktop application) to use specific colors for text, alt-text, background, and so on, rather than allowing the *viewer* to override them with personal preferences.
The basic problem is that as a designer you want to provide an aesthetic design in order to convey some additional non-verbal information. But the visibility impaired reader might really want high contrast black and white text in a larger font than you intended. Hard coding screws them over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=43676 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
