Re: Readers

At 01:30 PM 11/19/1999 , Mike Brace wrote:
>Can anyone offer a reasonable explanation as to why readers can't be
>engineered to accommodate some of the more fashionable trends, e.g., frames,
>table formats, interactive forms, etc. ?

In many cases, a modern reader -can- accommodate the fashionable
trends in web design -- assuming that the web designer has given
the screenreader or voice browser enough information to accurately
represent the page.

Some ways of expressing information are very graphical -- frames
are a visual metaphor based on 'physical' location on a screen,
for example.  These are fine to use as long as you realize the
limits of the method, and provide adequate compensation for those
limitations.


-- 
Kynn Bartlett                                    mailto:kynn@hwg.org
President, HTML Writers Guild                    http://www.hwg.org/
AWARE Center Director                          http://aware.hwg.org/

Received on Friday, 19 November 1999 19:27:58 UTC