- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 14:21:22 -0600
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
WAI folks, I recently received a tax publication via U.S. post from Bernard F. Crowly, Jr. Acting Commissioner Massachusetts Department of Revenue PO Box 7010 Boston, MA 02204 On the back it says Instructions for e-filing can be found in this booklet by visiting our website at: www.state.ma.us/dor I like to thow paper copies away in favor of online documents, so I went looking. The font size was smaller than I was used to; after checking my client configuration, I went into debug mode and did a "view source." I was disappointed to find: =========== <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" link="#336633" vlink="#333366" alink="#663333" topmargin="0" leftmargin="0"> [...] <table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> [...] <font size="2" face="helvetica,arial">The most commonly requested tax publications offered by the Department of Revenue can be found below. [...] =========== in the source of Tax Publications http://www.state.ma.us/dor/publ/publ.htm Last Modified: Friday, 12 February, 1999 13:41:00 GMT So in my "SGML cop" habit, and as a taxpaying citizen, I began to cite them in violation of the W3C Web Content Guidelines (and perhaps the relevant U.S. law... can't remember enough to cite it just now.) I found the feedback address mailto:dor@shore.net after reading: "Please note that this e-mail service is intended for comments about the DOR website only." http://www.state.ma.us/dor/webmail.htm Then I started with WAI Home Page http://www.w3.org/WAI/ [I suggest a more complete title for that page: W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Home Page] expecting to find things like: Don't use <font>; use stylesheets in stead. Don't use <tables> for layout Don't set the background color without setting the foreground color and vice versa. But I can't find them stated plainly. Help? The closest I found was "5. Use markup and style sheets properly. " http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-WAI-PAGEAUTH/#gl-structure-presentation but I didn't see anything about the <font> tag in particular. One other tidbit from "view source": <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 2.0"> I reviewed the online information about this product: FrontPage 98 - Overview http://www.microsoft.com/products/prodref/571_ov.htm?RLD=29 but I could not find an mechanism for online product feedback. Clues? -- Dan W Connolly http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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