> Geoff Deering > >I'd estimate it to be roughly the same as the percentage of > users that have reconfigured their OS to use different > default colours which would make them get confused by > *judiciously* styled form controls.
> And what percentage of users that access those web pages would you > expect that to be? You tell me...as they're the ones that you mentioned as a group that would potentially have problems with designers styling form controls in the first place, if I recall correctly... > it just says it changes the background color, because this is > under the control of the custom settings of the users desktop Anyway, I think we've bored the rest of the WSG list enough with this fundamental "philosophical" difference. You advocate not styling form controls at all to avoid any potential problems; I say that judicious styling, combined with more refined and obvious browser controls (it should be fairly easy to find the overrides, not buried under 3-4 levels of options), plus possibly alternate style sheets / site preferences, should not be a major problem as long as designers are made aware of the potential problems and don't just make arbitrary design choices (which anybody who calls hHimself a designer shouldn't anyway). There's probably no way to get our two views closer, so I'll agree to disagree once again :) P ________________________________ Patrick H. Lauke Web Editor / University of Salford http://www.salford.ac.uk ________________________________ Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force http://webstandards.org/ ________________________________ ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
