- From: Alice Anderson <alice.anderson@doit.wisc.edu>
- Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 17:41:13 +0100
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
All, we're having a discussion on campus, and I'd like a few more opinions. thanks in advance. 1. The wiggle room on the deprecated code issue is the wording; it says "avoid" not don't. 2. It is still necessary or maybe easier to use deprecated codes, particular attributes, at times to get pages to display correctly since style sheets do not always produce the desired results. XXX is correct that they don't adversely affect the accessibility of the sites and that is really the point. Until style sheets of some other method is universally adopted this will be an on going issue. I think we should try to not to use dreprecated code but we should get to hung up on it either. I commented on the use of the ATTRIBUTES "bgcolor" with the BODY tag, "align" with the P tag, and "width" with the TD tag. The XXX webmaster thought I was referring to the ELEMENTS like BODY,P, and TD instead of the ATTRIBUTES like "bgcolor","align",and "width". I'm also referring to the specific combination of ATTRIBUTES/ELEMENTS since those attributes are not depricated everywhere. Guideline 11.2 says "Avoid deprecated features of W3C technologies." The example that the guidelines refers to is the FONT element, but if they meant just elements then they would have used the word "elements". They refer to both elements and attributes on their techniques page. If you look under each of those elements then you will see that those attributes are depricated. The reason that I bring up the depricated attributes issue is that the "bgcolor", "align", and "width" attributes are used on most web pages and most people don't realize that they've been depricated for certain elements. I think that the guideline is quite clear that you can't use these attributes, but there's probably not any impact on accessibility if you do. Alice Anderson Learning Technology Initiatives Coordinator Technology Accessibility Program (TAP) Coordinator University of Wisconsin-Madison, DoIT 1307 University Avenue Madison, WI 53706 alice.anderson@doit.wisc.edu 608.262.2129
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