Re: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), W3C Pages and Macs

> I tested the links or one link from today's Techniques Audio Conference
> ([15]http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/WD-WCAG20-GATEWAY-20030723.html)

and I don't know what that's all about, but it is not valid HTML.

<http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/WD-WCAG20-GATEWAY-20030723.html>

One of those eat-your-own-vegan-dogfood things.

The CSS validates, though, if you can dig around to find the right URL.

<http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http://www.w3.org/StyleSheets/TR/base/techniques.css>

> I recall some months back, we discussed the importance of assuring that web
> accessibility cross the operating system divide and we needed to look at how
> things render on Macs.

1. Write valid code
2. Tweak for known incompatibilities in target browsers

Action 2 above includes Macs and various other platforms, of course.

For both 1 and 2, read _Designing with Web Standards_ by Zeldman, among
many other widely-available sources.

A *lot* of people working in Web accessibility use Macintosh or are
outright Macintosh separatists. I do not think WAI is in much of a
position to use its own invalid documents as models of CSS-based design,
however.

--

  Joe Clark  |  joeclark@joeclark.org
  Author, _Building Accessible Websites_
  <http://joeclark.org/access/> | <http://joeclark.org/book/>

Received on Thursday, 28 August 2003 20:25:44 UTC