- From: Weil, T.J. <t.weil@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 10:12:09 +0100
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
- Cc: "O'Callaghan, L." <l.ocallaghan@ic.ac.uk>
Dear All The W3C page http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/#browsers addresses browser style capability generally while http://www.webreview.com/guides/style/ has charts showing how far the main browser types implement CSS. Especially useful is the 'Safe Chart' of features that ought to work on most CSS-enabled browsers http://www.webreview.com/guides/style/safegrid.html. Microsoft IE5 is said to implement most if not all of CSS1 and much of CSS2 (reported at the W3C European Leveraging meeting, Rutherford Appleton Lab, Oxford, UK, 17th July, 1998). Has anyone had a chance to look at the IE5 betas yet? Encouraged by our Disabilities Officer, I'm attempting to rewrite our own heavily tables-oriented home page http://www.cc.ic.ac.uk with CSS while also taking into account the WAI Accessibility Guidelines (http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/WD-WAI-PAGEAUTH-0414.html). Have been able to emulate the page without a table, frame or 'filler GIF' in sight: however the page design itself is not particularly sociable towards users with low vision and design-wise is out-of-date anyway: the UK Charity, the Royal National Institute for the Blind has produced some helpful page-design guidelines on http://www.rnib.org.uk/wedo/research/hints.htm. The CSS rewrite of our page displays on MS-IE4 and Netscape 4. Browsers such as Lynx and even an ancient alpha version of Mosaic (for Digital Equipment Corp.'s Ultrix) also display the page meaningfully. However ensuring it complies with the Accessibility Guidelines is a tougher challenge. Whether we make the effort to meet that challenge depends on how much we value our colleagues who may be differently abled to ourselves. Cheers Tom Dr T Weil (Information Services Manager and College Webmaster) Centre for Computing Services, Mechanical Engineering Building, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2BX. Tel: (0)171-594 6960; Fax: (0)171-594 6958; email t.weil@ic.ac.uk URL: http://www.ic.ac.uk/~tw/
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