Betsie is a bull in a sledgehammer/nut approach to accessibility from a time when that was the only way to crack the nut. Now, someone has invented the nutcracker.
Of course not everyone yet has a nutcracker so we still need the sledgehammer, but it's role is increasing. What Betsie does - specifically its rearranging of navigation to be at the bottom - was necessary for the time, but that rearrangement can be done within the HTML very easily (that's how I build my own webpages - so when you turn off CSS, content at the top, navigation at the bottom). Conversion of colours etc, is even easier with CSS. These things can be automatically built into a page without needing standalone parsers. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James > Sent: 09 November 2005 09:20 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [backstage] iMP: accessibility, is the smell > really that bad? > > > Betsie was for an age when only one version of a site was usually > produced. The advent of CSS and more importantly I think, > XSLT and XML > means it's much easier and cleaner to produce XML datasets of > websites > and parse the contents through XSLT to produce differing > compliant outputs.. > > Gordon Joly wrote: > > >> > >> > >> Betsie's days are no doubt numbered - modern coding > techniques allow > >> much greater accessibility to be built into webpages, allowing > >> accessibility without having to resort to parsers like > Betsie. You > >> can do a huge amount with a sensible HTML structure and CSS > >> layout/presenation techniques. > >> > > > > > > I assume that y'all have read the code (of BETSIE)? > > > > Gordo > > > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To > unsubscribe, please visit > http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
