Sometime Today, Siddharth Dalal assembled some asciibets to say:
> I think a browser looks better to me and if you think disabled people can
> see text better than HTML you are sadly mistaken.
I didn't see that they see text better. Let me explain:
A person with visual disabilities may use a reader to read out the text on
a page. When out of the blue a new page pops up (javascript) then -
- he may not see it
- the reader may start reading out of the new window totally losing
context
Hiding text by making the background and foreground colour the same will
hide it from humans, not from electronic readers.
When you use the font color tag, it is hard for persons who are color
blind to change the page colors to suit his needs. This could more likely
be considered a browser problem, but until browsers grow up designers are
gonna have to be responsible about it.
All images _must_ have alt tags. This is a requirement by the w3c specs.
How many web sites have you seen that violate this rule? This also causes
loss of continuity for readers.
Image maps. I have seen several sites that use server side maps. These
require the browser to send back x,y coordinates of a mouse click. That
is absolutely absurd. My browser deals in 80x25 screens and doesn't show
images inline. Does that mean I shouldn't be allowed to navigate? A
Client Side image map makes a lot of sense.
I am not saying that your pages should be stripped completely to allow for
the lowest common divisor. This has been an active debate among the web
development community for years. The best solution - albeit requiring
more work - is to make separate versions of your page for different people
and either giving them the chance to select, or automatically selecting
through server side scripts.
Frames definitely make it easier to navigate. Have you ever considered
though what it takes to render a page with frames? The same goes with
tables. A table will not be rendered until all the text contained in it
is downloaded. When you do not put height and width attributes into your
images, the entire page needs to be re-rendered with each image's header
being downloaded.
Style sheets are the best solution. They were designed specifically with
graceful degradation and accessibility in mind. Whenever possible, use
CSS instead of frames and tables.
We could probably go on and on about this, but it's all been documented at
the w3c as several megabytes of plain text.
Philip
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