- From: Neff, Robert <Robert.Neff@usmint.treas.gov>
- Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 12:18:57 -0400
- To: "'Kynn Bartlett'" <kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com>, ADAM GUASCH-MELENDEZ <ADAM.GUASCH@EEOC.GOV>
- Cc: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org, w3c-wai-eo@w3.org, w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Tables add to the file size and can be aproblem with accessibility if nto used properly. In a rapid application environment, universal accessibility items can be missed when there are updates and tables compound the review process - if there is one. Basically, the less there, the easier it is to maintain. the most accessible accolade I give this site is tables were not used for layout, only data. So here is an example of a functional web site. The target audience was unions and coporation who needed access to information (and the public). We never received a bad comment and only received thanks for making a web site that downloads fast, and is functional and usable, where information is easy to find. In regrards the statment on the use of deprecated HTML elements, will let Jamie speak to this as I am no longer there. If they were a part of the original design, then I missed this in the quality assurance review. Then again, we were flying and also the Guildelines were draft back then and the revisions were a moving target <smile>. But deprecated has alway been a part of HTML 4. rob -----Original Message----- From: Kynn Bartlett [mailto:kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 1999 7:26 PM To: ADAM GUASCH-MELENDEZ Cc: robneff@home.com; w3c-wai-ig@w3.org; w3c-wai-eo@w3.org; w3c-wai-gl@w3.org Subject: Re: Fw: Checkpoint 3.3 At 07:06 AM 7/16/1999 , ADAM GUASCH-MELENDEZ wrote: >In the case of the example you provided, your page appears to be fully >accessible, but it uses deprecated HTML elements to control the appearance >of the page. Here, CSS would be required. Or, simply strip out the >deprecated elements, and you're fine without CSS. Question: Is the page with CSS instead of the HTML more accessible, less accessible, or equally accessible? Can you explain exactly how the accessibility has been noticeably improved in this case? Note that there may be a choice between "having this look the same in Netscape 3.0 and Netscape 4.0" and "making a very minor increase in accessibility." For some agencies or companies, the tiny benefit is not worth the cost of losing support for Netscape 3.0. -- Kynn Bartlett mailto:kynn@hwg.org President, HTML Writers Guild http://www.hwg.org/ AWARE Center Director http://aware.hwg.org/
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