Hi, (may be bit rantish, I do provide some solutions in the later section).
Accessibility can be measured in multiple ways. You can look at font-sizes, colours etc. and say, well this and this text can't be read, this can't be read, this is well readable... etc. On the other hand there is another aspect that is a bit harder to quantify with contrast differences etc., but is imho as important, if not more important: the interface should be helpful in giving users the right pointers. As a team we made the decision to deliberately focus on the action statements (and content), and they are thought of as giving the right pointers to ~90% of our the website users. I expect ~9% is will need the top tabs, and only ~0.9% would want to use search. ~0.1% the login. If you confuse the 90% of the users with a visually overloaded website... I'm inclined to think you loose more users than you'll loose when some of those 0.9% won't be able to find search. I don't know this for sure... but much depends on how you design something. You can make your website dependent on the search field (e.g. Google), or not... we choose for the latter. Yes I've forgotten about one of the minitabs. The native language minitab. Initially, one of designs features a special highlight in case a native language was detected: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/w/images/4/4d/Murb_homepageproposal1_homepage_normal_lang.png We haven't been able to implement that one yet... and imho we should consider that. Additionally we can make an alternative stylesheet (Ivan, that's the solution W3C has developed, and is at least supported by Firefox/Opera for these types of situations, not relying on background images being turned on/off ;) ) with increased contrast (maybe even stored in a cookie), but if search is at a certain stage really important... the page maintainer should consider placing search in the content field, not relying on users to search for the top right corner searchfield. g., Maarten --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
