- From: Daniel Dardailler <danield@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 15:06:13 +0100
- To: GL - WAI Guidelines WG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Liam wrote: > Font sizes specified in points should be avoided. DD:: Agreed. > This may be worth mentioning in the guidelines. DD:: It is already: 1.1: Use style sheets instead of elements (such as I, B, FONT, etc.) 5.1 Presentation elements include: size="14", B, I, TT, FONT, ... > Another problem for sighted users is the use of things like <BODY > BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF">. While this is common on the Web, I think it > represents an accessibility problem. If the user's text and link colours > are too different from typical browser defaults, the page may be > unreadable. As an example, consider a user who has configured her browser > to use white text on a black background; this user will see white on white > unless she overrides all author colours, which shouldn't be necessary (but > is on today's Web). Recommendation: If one of the BGCOLOR, TEXT, LINK, > VLINK, or ALINK attributes is given, then all should be specified. The > BACKGROUND attribute should also be accompanied by the other BODY colour > attributes. DD:: Yes, this is a rule we have applied with a script to the whole W3C site a while ago. But I'm not sure it's worth mentioning in the document as this is easily overruled by use of CSS "body: { color : white }" clause.
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