Re: Alternate Stylesheets

Hi Eric, all,

Thank you for doing this review! Personally I don't think that we should 
prioritize these changes, there is a lot of other work waiting for us on 
this Demo. What do others think?

Best,
   Shadi


Eric Eggert wrote:
> 
> Hi all.
> 
> I’ve had a look into the accessible demo pages in regard of applying 
> various alternate stylesheets to provide a small accessibility zen garden.
> 
> Conclusion first: I’s possible but not easy.
> 
> There is lots of presentational markup in the demo like twelve or 
> something divs for the shadow around the site which wouldn’t exactly 
> hinder the ability to style it but can’t be considered best practice.
> 
> Another problem are the inbound images, like the logo and weather info, 
> which are hard to replace by other fancy looking graphics and/or plain 
> text.
> 
> There is no image replacement possible as the markup is missing @id on 
> several headlines and the markup is sometimes hard to understand as 
> class names are neither presentational (e.g. left and right) or semantic 
> (like primarycontent and secondarycontent) but sometimes obscure like c2 
> and c7 which represent the left and right column on the info demo page.
> 
> 
> That said, a rebrush would really be nice for those pages, probably some 
> lighter colors and a not so boxy layout. One could really do something 
> like that to present those pages in a more modern way.
> 
> I personally wouldn’t redesign the pages without touching the markup as 
> there are some things which could be optimized and simplified.
> 
> Any comments?
> 
> Regards, Eric
> 

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Shadi Abou-Zahra - http://www.w3.org/People/shadi/ |
   WAI International Program Office Activity Lead   |
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Received on Tuesday, 11 November 2008 16:56:26 UTC