Christian,
You said you've been told to place IE specific rules in a separate
sheet, but you don't mention why you haven't done so.
In the example you provided, I'd do this:
1) move "zoom: 1" to your IE6 rule (and to IE7 rule if necessary)
2) place the IE6 and IE7 rules in an IE ONLY sheet
3) use a conditional comment to call the IE sheet
Would that work? If so, please explain your reasons for not doing so.
Here are the pros and cons I'm aware of. I'd be interested to hear others.
Pros
A) enables CSS validation
B) avoids possible failure of automated accessibility test
C) facilitates site maintenance (easy to find and modify IE specific rules)
Con
A) Delays initial page load by requiring additional call to the server
Aloha,
Nick Stone
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c...@fagandesign.com.au wrote:
> From: <c...@fagandesign.com.au>
> I guess my question is: Do IE-related CSS hacks cause a document to
> fail AAA (or A/AA for that matter) Accessibility compliance?
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Hi Christian,
>
> If you mean things like zoom or even proprietary -Moz or -KHTML
> properties... no, that doesn't affect accessibility. Guidelines are
> subjective in that it's up to the site's owner to say whether or not
> his site is accessible after testing it against the various guidelines.
> The W3 validator is the issue. It should have been programmed years ago
> to ignore most, if not all, proprietary properties.
>
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Specifically, I mean something like this
.element {float:left;display:inline;zoom:1;margin-right:30px;}
* html .element {float:none;} /* IE6 */
*+ html .element {float:right;} /* IE7 */
I've been told to put these IE specific attributes in a seperate IE
stylesheet in order to avoid validation errors that supposedly affect
the AAA Acessibility check.
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