- From: Brian Kelly <lisbk@ukoln.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 09:35:59 +0100
- To: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com>
- Cc: "'Web Accessibility Initiative'" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
> At 09:29 AM 10/20/1999 +0100, Brian Kelly wrote: > > Thanks for your comments - but the HTML and CSS are now valid, and > >the display bug in Netscape remains. As others have pointed out > >Netscape has problems with valid documents. > > Brian, on which browser (name, version, and _platform_) does this > error exist? And does it cause damage to the access to the content, > or just an irregularity in the rendering of the page? > Hi Kynn In Netscape Communicator 4.7 on a Windows NT 4.0 platform some of the tables have about 3 inches of white space above them. Note that images in the magazine are included in a table (illustrated below) in order to stop the images overwriting the text (which does damage access to the content). As I've said before, writing accessible HTML may not be difficult but providing accessible web sites that look attractive is more difficult because of browser bugs :-( Brian <!-- Use table for images to overcome CSS bug in Netscape 4 --> <table width="100%"> <tr align="center"> <td><img src="figure-1.gif" alt="Figure 1: The Netscape Personal Toolbar" height="134" width="491" border="0"></td></tr> <tr align="center"><td><strong>Figure 1: The Netscape Personal Toolbar</strong></td> </tr> </table> -------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus UKOLN, University of Bath, BATH, England, BA2 7AY Email: b.kelly@ukoln.ac.uk URL: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ Homepage: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/b.kelly.html Phone: 01225 323943 FAX: 01225 826838
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