>> While I agree with your general sentiment, I have to say I find the
>> assertion that all people aged 35-40 or more are "for all intents and
>> purposes [...] web disabled and [...] in immediate need of web
>> accessibility" questionable, to say the least.
>>
>> I'd be careful of overstating th
2009/7/2 Dennis Lapcewich :
>
> If you are unsure that web accessibility should play a role, take this test.
> In a group of people have everyone stand up. Those who are unable to stand
> may remain seated. Now pose these three requests, in order:
>
> 1) If you are wear glasses, contacts and/or
Web accessibility is being more properly handled by browser creators using
magnification functionality,
which more effectively provides a better, more satisfying user experience
because images, as well as text,
can be magnified. While previous magnification functionality has required
users to scro
If you are unsure that web accessibility should play a role, take this
test. In a group of people have everyone stand up. Those who are unable
to stand may remain seated. Now pose these three requests, in order:
1) If you are wear glasses, contacts and/or have had corrective eye
surgery, pl
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From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On
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To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] Accessible websites (was: accessible free web hosting
account)
I'll just address one you raised Jens.
Google doe
I'll just address one you raised Jens.
Google does not currently parse external Javascript files. So unless
Fairfax uses simple inline Javascript, and exposes spiderable URLS,
that's probably good enough for most of us to use progressive
enhancement methodology . Ask Lucas. When he gets back
Hi,
thank you for your thoughts and feedback.
> After all, the few people that do spend any time at all on making their
> websites accessible,
> probably aren't going to be experts in accessibility, so probably won't do a
> very good job of it.
Yes and no. If we had no pioneers which inhere
At 6/29/2009 11:46 PM, Jens-Uwe Korff wrote:
I found that some of these elements take quite some time to
integrate. Creating high-contrast CSS can take up to a day (or more
if you're new to it), non-Javascript states usually more than an
hour because you also have to edit the script.
By "non-
On 30 Jun 2009, at 16:46, Jens-Uwe Korff wrote:
For an example of a high-contrast version may I suggest to check out
the Sydney Morning Herald's Travel section (http://www.smh.com.au/travel/
). Click on "Low vision" in the navigation bar (We're going to
replace "low vision" with "high contra
I think it is pretty good.
But one slight irony/anomaly - the 'low vision' link is in pretty
small font. Took me a while to find it... time for new
glasses prescription
jim
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Jens-Uwe
Korff wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I believe making sites accessible is very important.
Hi all,
I believe making sites accessible is very important.
We are all used to ramps near stairs, lifts near escalators, lowered curbs at
intersections. We need to get used to "baking in" time into our projects for
accessible elements.
Such elements are hidden headings (to aid semantics), ski
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