While I agree with your general sentiment, I have to say I find the
assertion that all people aged 35-40 or more are for all intents and
purposes [...] web disabled and [...] in immediate need of web
accessibility questionable, to say the least.
I'd be careful of overstating the case like
I'll just address one you raised Jens.
Google does not currently parse external Javascript files. So unless
Fairfax uses simple inline Javascript, and exposes spiderable URLS,
that's probably good enough for most of us to use progressive
enhancement methodology . Ask Lucas. When he gets
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I'll just address one you raised Jens.
Google does not currently
If you are unsure that web accessibility should play a role, take this
test. In a group of people have everyone stand up. Those who are unable
to stand may remain seated. Now pose these three requests, in order:
1) If you are wear glasses, contacts and/or have had corrective eye
surgery,
Web accessibility is being more properly handled by browser creators using
magnification functionality,
which more effectively provides a better, more satisfying user experience
because images, as well as text,
can be magnified. While previous magnification functionality has required
users to
2009/7/2 Dennis Lapcewich dlapcew...@fs.fed.us:
If you are unsure that web accessibility should play a role, take this test.
In a group of people have everyone stand up. Those who are unable to stand
may remain seated. Now pose these three requests, in order:
1) If you are wear glasses,
I think it is pretty good.
But one slight irony/anomaly - the 'low vision' link is in pretty
small font. Took me a while to find it... notetoselftime for new
glasses prescription/notetoself
jim
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Jens-Uwe
Korffjko...@fairfaxdigital.com.au wrote:
Hi all,
I
On 30 Jun 2009, at 16:46, Jens-Uwe Korff wrote:
For an example of a high-contrast version may I suggest to check out
the Sydney Morning Herald's Travel section (http://www.smh.com.au/travel/
). Click on Low vision in the navigation bar (We're going to
replace low vision with high contrast
At 6/29/2009 11:46 PM, Jens-Uwe Korff wrote:
I found that some of these elements take quite some time to
integrate. Creating high-contrast CSS can take up to a day (or more
if you're new to it), non-Javascript states usually more than an
hour because you also have to edit the script.
By
Hi,
thank you for your thoughts and feedback.
After all, the few people that do spend any time at all on making their
websites accessible,
probably aren't going to be experts in accessibility, so probably won't do a
very good job of it.
Yes and no. If we had no pioneers which
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