Devil's advocate - it's all very well people complaining about poor
accessibility but some people (like myself) are trying to produce good
practice websites but have limited technical skills - I have created my
website on Frontpage and although I know the basics of html and can alter
some things, some of the WAI guidance BObby suggestions are unintelligible
to us. I have attempted to set up a style sheet, and use non-fixed font
sizes etc, but Frontpage automatically does strange things to it. I used
headings for different font styles ie: for subheadings, links etc, but then
Bobby tells me that I'm not using them in the correct hierarchy.. Iget a
Boby Approved one day and then I go and check the next week and there are a
couple of points that are wrong again - I spent days, weeks trying to do
this, only to find that even some sites that are giving adice on how to
make your site accessible actually fail on Bobby too, so I give up - I do
all the important things like alternative text for the very few graphics
that I have. I prefer to spend my time making sure that the content is
quality assured and the pages look and print simple, clear, uncluttered.
And I have been getting very good feedback to this effect.
Sorry to have a rant, but I've spent so much time trying these
accessibility procedures only to create more problems! If someone scan
point me in the right direction of a user-friendly, non-technical site with
simple instructions on how to improve my design, please let me know.
Sarah
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Sarah Greening
Intelligence Officer - Patient Information
Partnership for Developing Quality
Regional Library Unit, Public Health Building,
University of Birmingham
Birmingham. B15 2TT
Tel. 0121 414 7754
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EQUIP - Electronic Quality Information for Patients at www.equip.nhs.uk
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-----Original Message-----
From: Sebastian Rahtz [SMTP:[log in to unmask]
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Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 1:23 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Accessability examples
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 11:04:04AM +0000, [log in to unmask]
wrote:
> Have a look at "www.mrc.ac.uk" which is based on 3 sites -
graphical,
> text and print.
I don't think that pressing the "print" button for me quite cuts it
for accessibility :-}
I'd also suggest the text version not use tables.
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