Good article, Kay!
I'd try sending them there, but in the end it's a matter of balancing some
of the following things:
1. spending time educating the client
2. maintaining an acceesible approach to design
3. Runing a business
If after trying to educate the client (a 10 minute phone conversation you're
NOT going to get paid for), and they still want a text only page "just
because we think it's best", then cave in...
But cave in your way - make a 'text-only' looking stylesheet and charge them
for the work!
You maintain standards and accessibility as well as get paid!
Alternatively make a text-only copy of the whoel site and charge them double
as it's twice the work than the original scope.
...
I'm just at the point of screaming when it comes to corporate clients who
'know best' about things and insist on doing it their way.
Fine - i'll explain the pros and cons and give my professional, experienced
and informed opinion.
If they throw it in the bin and ask me to do anything extra, then they can
pay for it.
I'll bet good money that if you tell them it's going to be an extra $2500
for a text-only version, or $250 to whip up a styleswitcher and CSS file
then they'll go for the cheap option every single time. In this case, it
happens to co-incide with an accessible approach.
Just my *somewhat frazzled at End of Financial Year* two cents..
:o)
R
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kay Smoljak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 12:12 PM
Subject: Re: [WSG] looking for an accessibility reference on why text-only
is bad
On 6/30/05, Richard Czeiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Use a styleswitcher to to display your 'text-only' courier-based
stylesheet
We *could* do that... but I'd rather educate the client :)
To answer my own question, soon after posting (isn't that always the
way) I found this very good article on Webcredible:
http://www.webcredible.co.uk/user-friendly-resources/web-accessibility/text-only.shtml
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Kay Smoljak
http://kay.smoljak.com/
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