> Geoff Deering > The problem is that web designers are now implementing designs that > convey meaning to form controls, that they are not intending > to imply in their design,
Which, again, is a sign of a bad designer, and a problem that should be solved by educating the designer, not simply saying that inputs should not be styled. A far more open recommendation would be along the lines of "feel free to style form controls, but ensure that you maintain clear and unequivocal visual clues as to the type, state, etc of the individual controls, in sympathy with system defaults and user expectations". > this will degrade the user experience because of purely visual > design degrading the inherent meaning of a standard interface between > user and form element state. Carefully considered, as opposed to "purely visual", design (and yes, there IS a difference, despite the general feeling evident in certain factions of the WAI that all design is just "bad") has its place in enhancing and visually integrating form controls in an overall site design. P ________________________________ Patrick H. Lauke Web Editor / University of Salford http://www.salford.ac.uk ________________________________ Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force http://webstandards.org/ ________________________________ ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
