- From: Terry Brainerd Chadwick <tbchad@tbchad.com>
- Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2002 18:23:00 -0700
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
I wrote: >>>>(By the way, I'm beginning to understand perspective's like the webmaster's. They're not being taught to use basic HTML standards in school. I began developing websites in 1994 and am self-taught, but most of today's webmasters have some sort of academic training. I have been negotiating to teach accessibility to web design and development instructors at a local community college. They admit that they don't teach how to do W3C standard HTML. It's all Frontpage and Dreamweaver and to hell with HTML, accessibility and other standards. AAARRRGH!!!)<<< Just to make it clear, I didn't mean to say that you can't build accessible sites using either Frontpage or Dreamweaver. Of course you can, especially with their accessibility extensions to help. However, the people that I met with who supervise the instructors and also teach these classes aren't teaching them how to design to HTML standards using these programs, let alone accessibility standards. (They just seem to teach basic features and cool effects, and nothing about "proper" coding.) As usual, it's not the programs or software that is to blame, it is the people using and teaching how to use these programs that cause the problems. My point was that if instructors don't teach the importance of designing to HTML standards--after all the ALT attribute has been standard for more than five years--why would their students think it is important? Terry Terry Brainerd Chadwick, InfoQuest! Information Services mailto:tbchad@tbchad.com 1-503-228-4023 http://www.tbchad.com Providing Internet Audits and Optimization to Improve Performance Accessibility, Analytics, Content, Promotion, Search, Usability
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