Hi Thomas In the last episode, Thomas Wouters wrote: TW> On Sunday 01 April 2007, Jeff Rollin wrote: TW> > Hi list TW> > TW> > I like the new look of the website, but how on Earth does anyone make any TW> > sense of the links? Purple on black is a really bad idea, and that's from TW> > someone who doesn't have any accessibility issues with websites. TW> > TW> > Should this be filed as a bug? TW> > TW> > Jeff TW> TW> This has nothing to do with the accessibility of the website, it inflects the TW> usability, which is something completely different. TW> What isn't accessible is the layout which is based on tables, changing this to TW> div's will increase the accessibility and the opportunity to easily create TW> new designs. TW> The menus are awfull, I mean, come on, <a> tags separated by pipes? Imagine TW> what text to speech software would make from that... What's wrong with using TW> <ul> which is basically made for this? TW> TW> Anyway, if you want to talk about accessibility, the first thing you should do TW> is ask yourself the question if you know what accessibility is. If the answer TW> to that question is no, then stick with the term usability.
In my opinion this is hair-splitting. To me "accessibility" just means "usability for disabled users". Besides, as I already noted, the fact that it's bad from a design/usability standpoint is only going to make it worse from an accessibility standpoint. Jeff -- For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. Richard Phillips Feynman, American physicist, 11/5/18-15/2/88 --
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