Re: FN-FORUM: Sitecheck - Updating my website - using CSS

date posted 13th March 2008 17:32




Ok, but from my position (and I have said this before) - I don=B9t give a
tinkers toss about accessibility, I appreciate why a lot of businesses woul=
d
be, but I am working in a niche market, which is a visually rich industry
(photography) - I design a lot of folio sites in flash (which many would sa=
y
is 'inaccessible') - but they are designed for visual punch and that is wha=
t
hopefully gets the commissions, everything else (accessibility, standards,
CSS, blah blah blah) - at least for my industry - is secondary.

I am sure you will disagree



On 13/3/08 6:20 pm, "Lists (Kathy)" [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:

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> Of course there are many, many reasons for using CSS, but one that you
> ought to consider is accessibility. Sites laid out in tables don't read
> correctly in speech browsers. Plus, if you are using a low resolution
> (because you have rubbish eyesight, for example, or an old PC (you are
> poor, perhaps), those clever tables usually involve scrolling
> horizontally - eewwww!!