> From: Lee Roberts [...] > It's bad enough everyone > thinks they need > to do it, but for an accessibility group to do it I'm flabbergasted.
most current screenreaders / assistive technologie hook into IE in some way to provide web browsing. so it's still a harsh reality that some user groups WILL have to use IE, and developers need to therefore at least test their pages in this browser. offering this toolbar to the developers just makes life a little easier...now if i have a page open in IE i can do most of my validation etc there as well, rather than having to copy the URL and paste it into firefox, to take advantage of the web developer extension. and yes, some functions - like the "colour" ones, which - i believe - use IE's proprietary filters to simulate b/w display etc - are very useful and not directly replicated in other toolbars (Mozilla/Firefox ones or otherwise). see it as another one of many tools available to developers, not as a social commentary or a "validation" of IE's merits. Patrick ________________________________ Patrick H. Lauke Webmaster / University of Salford http://www.salford.ac.uk ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************
