Cherry, There are quite a few of us that would agree with you, Richard Worth and myself to name two, there is plugin but could not find it right away that help with accessibility. Everything I do has to be 508 compliant and not just because I feel it is the right thing to do, but I would with the Gov't, ie. epa, army.mil, and so on. So I understand your point of view and the best suggestion is to keep doing what you are doing and always keep accessibility on the front burner.
On 2/14/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Before (trying to) adopt jQuery, I've never used Javascript to control > content. In reading hundreds of blogs by Javascript developers over > the past weeks, I've been alarmed by their attitude to accessibility. > It's not just a matter of 'political correctness', and it's not just > about minority users. One tiny example: a friend of mine has rubbish > eyesight - she's not blind, she's fit to drive - she has her screen > resolution set to LARGE so she can read it. > > The other day, she wanted to open a new 'internet-only' savings > account. This is business; she has quite a lot of money to invest. The > idiot who made that bank's website hadn't accounted for variable > fonts; on her screen, the text overwrote the fields! So, she could not > open this account, which is only available via the Web, because the > form was unusable. The bank may as well have advertised the account > as "only available to savers with normal eyesight"! > > Things like this, you can fix very simply by making all your sizes > proportional - if my friend then has to scroll off the screen to fill > the form, she don't care, as long as she can read & complete it. > > All of my problems with jQuery, so far, have been to do with trying to > solve basic accessibility issues. I understand why making a site "do" > something feels more important! It's more exciting. But I wish you > would, at the same time, ensure a readily-available alternative that > can be used as well. > > Just a gentle reminder :) > Cherry. > http://jquery.cherryaustin.com > -- Benjamin Sterling http://www.KenzoMedia.com http://www.KenzoHosting.com http://www.benjaminsterling.com
