Hi, Fraser,
tThe message you sent Stefan about his oxymoronic website, which you posted
to this list, was, hopefully also posted directly to his E-mail address.
Many people who are pushing products, subscribe to the lists of interest,
but then go nomail and only send their product announcements and blurbs to
the list without participating in the list discussions. In case he is
actually monitoring this list, in addition to what you suggested about
alt-tags and labels for his links, and real text information instead of
images of pages, and looking at the information at
http://www.anybrowser.org/
he could do something else.
He can go to:
http://www.cast.org/
and check out the program called Bobby. Bobby can analyze a webpage or a
whole website and point out where it deviates from accepted www design
conventions and where it presents accessibility problems for various
browsers, or for people with various disabilities. It goes farther than
that, because it also suggest specific fixes and solutions to overcome the
specific problems it encounters. Anybody who is not aware of and familiar
with these tools cannot consider him/herself a true designer of web pages,
no matter how cool the designer may think the pages might be. I think that
most people who come to this list, especially the long-time regulars know
this and I could be accused of preaching to the choir. New people to this
list who have just discovered that something older and slower than a Pentium
MMX CPU-equipped machine can even get onto the Internet, will be learning
about this fairly quickly. I take the view that if the cool look of your
web pages are more important to you than the actual content, as in programs
and information, then your pages are just wasting space on somebody's server
and clogging bandwidth on the Net.
I gave the people at Caldera in Utah hell about how their website promoting
OpenDOS 7.0 was one of those sites "best viewed with NetScape Navigator or
similar..." modern browser and that I thought it was rather strange that I
needed a Windows product to acquire DOS. Their excuse was that the OpenDOS
project was being handled by a subsidiary group in England and they were not
responsible for it. I later found the FTP site, so I never go to the
website anymore. Net-Tamer does annonymous FTP better than any other
program I've ever used other than a propperly compiled and configured NCFTP
program running on a propperly designed and compiled and configured Unix
shell.
I have a parallel port interfaced ZipDrive and two XT computers, so I would
be a likely candidate for purchasing Stefan's ZipDrive DOS drivers. He'll
never know that from his website though as long as it remains inaccessible
to me.
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