RE: Skip Navigation was RE: Access key questions

Good that you made the point Andrew...I was about to dive into
a "stop these useless generalisations about designers (or, as
other list members like to do, 'marketing people')" when I first
saw the previous message...

Patrick
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Patrick H. Lauke
Webmaster / University of Salford
http://www.salford.ac.uk



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Kirkpatrick [mailto:andrew_kirkpatrick@wgbh.org]
> Sent: 29 March 2004 15:02
> To: sdale@stevendale.com
> Cc: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Skip Navigation was RE: Access key questions
> 
> 
> 
> > Possibly... But designers dont use Headings and continue to 
> use styles to
> > change the heading text which makes user agents unable know what is
> > symantically a heading and what is just styled text.
> 
> This situation has improved dramatically.  With better 
> support for CSS in
> newer browsers and changes in the design community that 
> encourages the use
> of CSS for layout, there are far more sites that use CSS 
> these days.  I
> wouldn't describe the transition as complete, but the trend 
> is a positive
> one.
> 
> AWK
> -- 
> Andrew Kirkpatrick
> Project Manager, WGBH National Center for Accessible Media
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> Boston, MA  02134
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>

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