- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 10:48:53 -0400 (EDT)
- To: "Ball, Guy D" <Guy.Ball@unisys.com>
- cc: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Guy, there is a similar example (uses some of the features you mentioned but not all, and adds frames and some other stuff) at http://www.w3.org/2000/Talks/0004-fose/slide33-0 for a before and after version. This is part of a presentation I gave, and the slides before the one I mentioned go through how to make a number of the changes. I would be interested in comments on this example - it may be a useful one to develop further and make available to people. (If I get requests I will do this). Cheers Charles McCN On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Ball, Guy D wrote: To all: I'm working on an article on web accessibility for a national e-business publication and I need this group's help. I'm relatively new in the field of accessibility although I have been working with websites for a few years now. (And I'm a technical writer by trade.) I would like to help promote the importance of including accessibility in any design criteria -- whether it be a storefront or a company information site -- to the managers who set a direction for their web design team. In some cases, the audience may actually be the designers themselves, so I want to stress both the importance of why they need to do it (legal, moral, business benefit) and how they can do it (with certain types of codes, inclusion of certain codes, using certain aspects of CSS, etc.). In pouring through some of the information sites and by listening to this newsgroup, I have a decent feel for some of the considerations and things one should do, but I'm still having a bit of trouble with pulling it all together in a solid set of recommendations given a site using some of the modern visual techniques commonly used. So if I can, I would like to propose a scenario and would appreciate your help in "fixing" the site. XYZ Widgits is a manufacturer and has a site with: Flash (or Shockwave) animation on the front page Java roll-over, fly-out menu to help select where you want to go Table-based pages Various graphics that need alt text tags. Designer had no knowledge or consideration for accessibility, so didn't go out of his way to include anything. Please be kind to me (some of the emails in this group get rather "testy.") My intent is to help the cause and if I can get some of your points across on a national level, I'd be happy to. By the way, I encourage all of you to take the cause to the national internet and e-business publications. The more we contact these publications -- with letters to the editors or articles -- the more business people will take notice of what they need to do with accessibility. That is what I am trying to do and there is plenty of room for others. Thanks for your help! Guy Guy Ball Senior Technical Writer Unisys Corp. -- Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org phone: +61 (0) 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI Location: I-cubed, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton VIC 3053, Australia September - November 2000: W3C INRIA, 2004 Route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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