The BBC has (or have) discovered web accessibility, as a topic for an
article if not a philosophy for their sites.
Here's a fairly dreadful story from yesterday...
Maybe when CSS is more than a couple of years old, it'll take off.
And I didn't know this:
This follows up on a post by Karl Groves over at a.w.webmaster:
<Xns9869978EE78 64karlkarlcorec om@216.196.97.1 36>. It's unclear how
accessible Rowling's site is since it's all Flash (7, 8 who cares?). But
I didn't know Rowling was the *first*. I guess The Queen showed up and
launched it with a bottle of champagne, or summat.
They also call Target "America's giant DIY chain" and make numerous
grammatical mistakes, but such quibbles are even more OT here.
--
John
article if not a philosophy for their sites.
Here's a fairly dreadful story from yesterday...
Website designer, Leonie Watson says: "There's a technology called
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) that allows you to control the way a page
is displayed, such as the colour of the text and background.
"So if that's the way a page has been built, then you can control that
from within the browser or OS.
"However, that's quite a new technology, it's only been around a couple
of years, and a lot of designers are still very wary of using it. They
actually hard code the colours into the web page itself, which means
that they can't be overridden by your browser, or OS."
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) that allows you to control the way a page
is displayed, such as the colour of the text and background.
"So if that's the way a page has been built, then you can control that
from within the browser or OS.
"However, that's quite a new technology, it's only been around a couple
of years, and a lot of designers are still very wary of using it. They
actually hard code the colours into the web page itself, which means
that they can't be overridden by your browser, or OS."
And I didn't know this:
Harry Potter author JK Rowling recently launched the first site to use a
new form of Flash, which is often used to add interactivity and
animation to a website.
new form of Flash, which is often used to add interactivity and
animation to a website.
<Xns9869978EE78 64karlkarlcorec om@216.196.97.1 36>. It's unclear how
accessible Rowling's site is since it's all Flash (7, 8 who cares?). But
I didn't know Rowling was the *first*. I guess The Queen showed up and
launched it with a bottle of champagne, or summat.
They also call Target "America's giant DIY chain" and make numerous
grammatical mistakes, but such quibbles are even more OT here.
--
John
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