Mike McConnell writes:
> it and promoting it as you note. But it is my experience
> that if you teach staff and students how to create
> HTML (and include wysiwyg editors), they will use whatever
> is easiest for them, and to hell with the finer points of
> compliant code and accessible pages.
Quite. So take the dangerous tool away from them, and give them a
vocabulary which only lets them express real content. Up the entry
requirements for allowing stuff on your web site.
I know this likes patronizing, fascist, unworkable, what have you -
but I don't see any other way than control and censorship, if we
are to reach that vital accessibility goal.
Why do we have equal rights, race relations etc legislation? Because
experience shows that we selfish people (humans) don't respond to
pleas to "be nice".
Personally, I blame the whole problem on the word-processor mentality
which has crippled a whole generation, but thats another rant :-}
Sebastian Rahtz
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