At 5:33 PM -0700 08/31/00, Jennifer & Joseph Lazio wrote:
>I'll second this notion. I received a couple of *compliments* from
>blind people regarding how accessible the information in my FAQ is.
>The primary purpose of an FAQ is to answer questions, not to win
>fashion awards.
And that's for an astronomy FAQ? Think of the additional importance in
other topics. Diabetes is still a major cause of blindness (though
enormously reduced in first world countries in recent years), so it's
important to me that my diabetes FAQ remain accessible to everyone. And
maybe someday I'll get those comments too ...
For universal access, text is still the most important format, but it's
possible to use a lot of HTML and still have it accessible. Non-visual
browsers, for example, can deal with links and with the ALT text of
images. There are extensive accessibility guidelines sat
http://www.w3.org/WAI/.
Edward Reid
*************************************************************
To unsubscribe send a message to majordomo@faqs.org as
unsubscribe faq-maintainers fill-in-your-email-address-here
*************************************************************
[
FAQ Archive |
Search FAQ Mail Archive |
Authors |
Usenet References
]
[
1993 |
1994 |
1995 |
1996 |
1997 |
1998 |
1999 |
2000
]
© Copyright The Internet FAQ Consortium, 1997-2000
All rights reserved