- From: Elizabeth J. Pyatt <ejp10@psu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 08:43:05 -0400
- To: www-international@w3.org
Tex Texin wrote: >It is not clear to me that we need to insist on the document being >coherent without css. > >... >Similarly, without positioning information that is in css styles, some documents become unsolved jigsaw puzzles. This is probably not what anyone wants to hear, but if you live in the U.S. and have to comply with federal Section 508 accessibility standards, then it is REQUIRED that docments linearize correctly without CSS (i.e. be coherent). Paragraph D "Documents shall be organized so they are readable without requiring an associated style sheet." http://www.section508.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Content&ID=12#Web This is because can use "float:right" and other CSS positioning tricks to "reogranize" your content completely differently in the layout from how is typed in the the document. Current screen readers will get confused and read things in document order and "out of layout" order (in theory, you could fix the screen readers, but that would take about 5-10 years to implement). Of course, standard U.S. screen readers don't handle Unicode outside Western European languages well at all...but that's another thread (sigh). Elizabeth -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Elizabeth J. Pyatt, Ph.D. Instructional Designer Education Technology Services, TLT/ITS Penn State University ejp10@psu.edu, (814) 865-0805 or (814) 865-2030 (Main Office) 210 Rider Building II 227 W. Beaver Avenue State College, PA 16801-4819 http://www.personal.psu.edu/ejp10/psu http://tlt.psu.edu
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