- From: Sean B. Palmer <sean@mysterylights.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 00:11:26 -0000
- To: "Kynn Bartlett" <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
- Cc: <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Really, the arguement here shouldn't be about the principles of SGML (my fault), it should be about accessibility. One of the greatest tools for promoting accessibility is the User Stlye Sheet. What this means is that on a suitably marked up site, one can apply a style sheet that overrides every presentational aspect of a site. Examples could be: 1. Colour blindness. A Red/Green colour blnd person does not want a page with red text and a green background, no matter how pretty it looks. 2. People such as myself can't stare at a bright screen for too long, therefore we need to have dark backgrounds. Now, using CSS, one can override the authors style sheet with one of our own; meaning we can actually use the sites. *However*, if that presentation is inherent in the markup itself, it is vey hard to override. I'm not saying it's impossible, but it is often close to impossible. By using semantic markup, the USER can define what they want a particular meaning to be displayed as. Surely that's not too much to ask - looking at it from a disability and accessibility viewpoint? Kindest Regards, Sean B. Palmer http://xhtml.waptechinfo.com/swr/ http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/ http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/ "Perhaps, but let's not get bogged down in semantics." - Homer J. Simpson, BABF07.
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