Re: WCAG2 Conformance Questions

Ryan Jean wrote:
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> Usually when I see printer friendly links, it results in a pop-up. If I 

In my experience the need for a printer friendly page indicates that the 
original page is not accessible, or at least, that the designer doesn't 
understand CSS.  I would suggest that most accessible pages only need 
@media to print properly using the basic browser print functionality.

Some specific reasons why people might want an explicit printer friendly 
page are:

- open source browsers could be tweaked to give a printer like handling 
on display media, resulting in the suppression of advertising 
(advertising is commonly removed in the printer friendly version).  In 
that case, there may be a static printer friendly version, but it won't 
be shown to search engines;

- there seems to be a big psychological need amongst designers to turn 
their documents into mini web browsers and eliminate the standard 
browser controls.

> were to have it link like that, the content would have to be duplicated 
> on a separate page, which I don’t want to do. Do you know server-side 
> scripting that will hide the content of the other cells? And not only 
> that, but make them act like they aren’t even there?

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Received on Thursday, 21 August 2008 22:04:06 UTC