Hello Everyone, Thanks a bomb for all your thoughts! You've been most helpful.
In future I'll be more careful with keeping any queries more obviously standards-centric. Thanks again, Dannielle On 9/3/08 7:46 PM, "Mark Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > tee wrote: >> >> On Mar 7, 2008, at 12:36 AM, Stuart Foulstone wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Search robots are essentially blind users. >> >> Anybody knows about this? > I think what Kevin meant is that the googlebot takes no notice of > graphical navigation or information, much as a blind user is unable to > see it. The googlebot is also unable to process javascript navigation > and links, so be sure to have alternate navigation. If you develop your > pages with blind users in mind, it will serendipitously help you with > the googlebot. > > >> The robots text is good for search robots, but >> I read from somewhere, that robots text no longer is needed when Google >> Sitemap is implemented for the site. I didn't know robots text was >> important for accessibility, however I learned from the accessites team >> that it is. >> > As Lea said, someone is confused. No assistive technology that I know of > pays any attention to the robots.txt file, nor would they gain much > information from it if they did. > > The main use of a robots.txt file is to tell unwelcome search bots to go > away. > > cheers > > mark > > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ******************************************************************* > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
