- From: Pat Byrne <pat@glasgowwestend.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 21:41:28 +0100
- To: <mburks952@worldnet.att.net>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
on 5/7/01 12:04 am, Michael R. Burks at mburks952@worldnet.att.net wrote: > In my opinion, colors, as font size should always be under the user's > control. > > Sincerely, > > Mike Burks > Webmaster and Public Information officer > www.icdri.org Mike, I don't know if you are the Webmaster of the Web site at the address you give above - but I see on the site at http://www.icdri.org there is an example of what I was asking about, i.e the navigation on the left of the page is white text on a red background - whereas the links on the rest of the page are blue on a white background. A style sheet is used to set the color and point size: .leftnav { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #FFFFFF; text-decoration: none} And the relevant code to specify one of the navigation links on your page is below: <tr bgcolor="#D23367"> <td class="leftnav"> <div align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#FFFFFF"><b><font size="2"><a href="stroke_main.htm" class="leftnav">Stroke Section</a></font></b></font></div> </td> </tr> So you are using both font and style sheet - I assume this is done so that the colors will appear the same on browsers that cannot use style sheets? I asked my original question so that I could find the best and most accessible way of doing this. Using a navigation bar with a different background to the rest of the page is a popular technique with Web designers - rather that say to them 'no you can't do that' I'd rather be able to say 'here the most accessible way of doing it'. Thanks, Pat > Chairman of ISTF(ISOC) Special Needs Workgroup > www.istf.org > -----Original Message----- > From: w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org]On > Behalf Of David Woolley > Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 5:20 PM > To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org > Subject: Re: links on white and black background > > >> >> Can anyone tell me the best way to specify link colors for links will > appear >> with both a white and a black background? i.e the color of the actual link >> need to be different for each of these circumstances. I see this often on >> sites - where there is a navigation bar with a colored background - but > the >> links on the rest of the page have a white background. > > If you set any colour, you must set all colours (background, text, links, > active link and visited link). If you use any channel to set any colour, > you must set all colours using that channel. > > If you use a background image, you must set all colours, including the > background colour; the background colour should be the dominant colour > of the background image; never put text on a background image that has > radically different colours in different parts. > > Ideally you should accept the user's colours for pages with significant > content. Failing that, I'd suggest only using style sheets. Set all > colour at the point where you set the background, as that is likely to be > the part of the style sheet that works most reliably. > > If the user has just had a bad experience with colours, they may well have > colours disabled, anyway. > > -- Glasgow West End: Pat's Guide: http://www.glasgowwestend.co.uk Guide to all that's best in Glasgow's West End: What's On, Eating Out, Shopping, Flat Hunting, Local Characters, Classified Ads., Community Pinboard, Art for Sale and Free Photographs to download. ScotConnect: Quick to load, accessible Web sites - built with the minimum of fuss. Jim and Pat Byrne
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