- From: Jon Gunderson <jongund@staff.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 07 Nov 1997 09:57:57 -0600
- To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Some comments on section 15. Style sheets I beleive are and will be pretty complex. A user with a disability will never be able to know all the classes and ids that an author uses for them to over ride them in their own personal style sheet. I think the biggest advantage is the use of style sheets to maintain and easily develop text only versions of documents. Authors who use a few rules can maintain one document that can easily be converted to a text only version. The following recommendations would help this process: Author recommendations 1. Do not use inline (in tag) style sheets. 2. Use only one linked and/or one document wide style sheet per document. 3. If #2 is followed and combined with #4 and #5, a text alternative page can be easily created by just removing the style sheet information. 4. Additional descriptions for the text only version, that is not needed in the CSS version, can be part of the CSS version and hidden using the DISPLAY attribute in the CSS version. 5. Put graphics physically at the end of WWW documents and replace them with CSS hidden text descriptions in the approapriate points in the linear document if important. This provides an easy way for an author to maintain a graghical and text only version of a document, and maintain only one copy of the document. Recommendation to Browser Developers 3. Allow style sheets to be turned off, not just replaced ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- I just did a presentation on the use of style sheets for accessibility and the outline can be found at: http://www.als.uiuc.edu/InfoTechAccess/97-11-5.html Jon Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign 1207 S. Oak Street Champaign, IL 61820 Voice: 217-244-5870 Fax: 217-333-0248 E-mail: jongund@uiuc.edu WWW: http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~jongund http://www.als.uiuc.edu/InfoTechAccess
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