Its just one point in the article, but my premise for the series is that
implementing web standards (XHTML/CSS) with no layout tables makes writing
fully accessible compliant web sites a breeze. Of course if your client is
the US Government (who is required to follow 508) but they browse the
internet via Netscape 4, which isn't a web standards browser and is 8 years
old (introduced 12/96), then they are one of the biggest hurdles to
implement compliant sites. Kind of hard to write a site your client can't
see properly and expect them to a) be happy about it, and b) pay you.
So this last article shows a solution to that. I just needed to make sure
that my premise was correct. According to the anectodat evidence I got from
here and from other resources, about 50% of the agencies I got responses
from are using NS 4x, the rest is fairly evenly divided between IE 6 and IE
5.5.
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From: Smith, Matthew P -CONT(CSC) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 4:13 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: RE: Browser Statistics for US Government
Could you expand on that, Sandy? I'm really interested in your viewpoint.
Is it just that it is so large with such a large user base that upgrades
tend to lag a bit behind?
Of course, I could just wait and rtfa. :-)
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From: Sandy Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 2:45 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: RE: Browser Statistics for US Government
Thats one of the points in the article, the Federal Government is itself one
of the biggest hurdles to implementing accessibility.
Thanks for all the confirmations!
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