Max M <maxm@mxm.dk> 29/07/02 15:08:53 >>>
Bo M. Maryniuck wrote:
Umm... No. Why you should use this "JavaScript masturbation"? (sorry, this phrase is taken from ESR essays :) -- no offence. To make yet another one lynx-incompatible site which is *REQUIRED* JavaScript turned on?
Bahh ... technology purists ...
Accessibility purists, actually. For example blind people using Lynx with a screen reader or another "alternative" user agent... [snip]
The web is about looks and interaction as much as it is about the "hypertext ideal." Practically nobody wants to use Lynx.
Get over it ;-)
Try that one on the judge if you get sued under the UK's Disability Discrimination Act and Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Act, or the US equivalent legislation. To get back OT (-ish): Zope's potentially well suited to providing mutiple versions of content to suit different user agents, should you want to go down that route to accessibility. TTFN John Whalley -- * John Whalley, Crewe Site Library, Manchester Metropolitan University * email: J.H.Whalley@mmu.ac.uk * Phone: (+44) 161 247 5220 (UK) * Usual disclaimer applies...........
Accessibility purists, actually. For example blind people using Lynx with a screen reader or another "alternative" user agent...
[snip]
Try that one on the judge if you get sued under the UK's Disability Discrimination Act and Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Act, or the US equivalent legislation.
At the University of Washington, all of our websites are required to be handicap-accessible, which means JavaScript must not interfere with Lynx. Some useful links about accessibility can be found here: http://www.washington.edu/computing/accessible/resources.html A company that has a free web-based accessibility test as well as add-on software for WYSIWYG HTML editors: http://www.usablenet.com/ --Chad Eberle, Database Specialist Evans School of Public Affairs @ U of WA
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