[WSG] Accessibility of iFrames?

[nedlud]

I have a content management system that uses frames for layout (not my
choice). We need to improve the accessibility of the site. Short of ditching
the CMS (not going to happen any time soon), or getting the vendor to write
better code (also not likely to happen), how can we improve the
accessibility?

Would iframes help at all? Are they any better, from an accessibility point
of view, than old fashioned frames?


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Re: [WSG] Accessibility of iFrames?

[Felix Miata]

On 2009/09/28 14:06 (GMT+1000) nedlud composed:

 Would iframes help at all? Are they any better, from an accessibility point
 of view, than old fashioned frames?

Most iframes on current sites are terrible. They're typically used for ads,
and a minimal HTML size is set or defaulted to that depends on CSS to enlarge
to a useful size. When a user disallows site styles in order to obtain
adequately sized text without overlapping or hidden content, the iframe
shrinks down to so small a size that typically only 2-3 words from a line of
text is visible, and maybe 2-3 rows, while its content generally needs to be
as much as 5 times or more that size to actually be useful. On the bright
side, the ads usually aren't missed. Non-ad iframes generally suffer similar
limitations for users unless the site stylists are aware and take care.
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