Agreed Jason, totally blind users may be small in number but turning away those with partial sight could hurt your clients bottom line; the trick is to invite in the "missing" 11% without making the site so boring that "normal" users wander off elsewhere.
Further it may help to widen the accessibility argument; these days for example I can often be found slumped in a corner in the evenings with my Ipod touch seeking out images for use use on my own and clients sites. Pre Ipod touch I wandered between two or three such sites looking for inspiration; these days I tend to go to just the one place to spend my money mainly because my Ipod barfs when faced with Flash or poor design and because the site I like "just works" on the mobile device as well as the real mac or various PCs. Usability and accessibility in action as it were. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Pruim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <wsg@webstandardsgroup.org> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 11:37 AM Subject: [WSG] Question about accessibility Good Morning everyone! I have a client that wants me to write his navigation mostly as a picture and then use image maps to get to the actual links. I am wondering, how would I go about convincing my client that this isn't the best way to do it? I personally think that some nice text links, styled properly with CSS would look just as good if not better then image maps. Oh, and to put it into context, it's a picture rating site so I don't know that Blind users are going to be too much of a concern for him since they can't see what the main part of the site is for. Any info I could get about this would be wonderful! Thanks everyone! -- Jason Pruim Raoset Inc. Technology Manager MQC Specialist 11287 James St Holland, MI 49424 www.raoset.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ******************************************************************* 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] *******************************************************************
