[Gllug] Argos site

[Simon Stewart]

On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 01:47:43PM +0100, Jonathan Dye wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Simon Stewart [mailto:sms at lateral.net]
> >
> > I also know people who like to use screen readers to read a page to
> > them while they do something else in another window. If there's
> > something interesting in the page, they can swap back to the browser
> > and properly examine it.
> 
> That's a good idea, are there any free screen readers?

Not sure about that. Sure the rest of the list will come up with
something, though.

> > Bad web design stops people using the web. Easy as that.
> 
> Has anyone got any links to guides on accessability for web pages?  I've
> knocked up a few sites in my time and have made sure that they are always
> standards complient and don't rely on Javascript (althought some have used
> it to enhance).  I also try make sure I have added ALT attributes to IMG
> tags.

http://www.webstandards.org/ perhaps? "Dive into Mark" did a nice set
of blogs about accessible weblogs, but many of the points carry over
to "real" site design, and there are some good explanations about
_why_ you want to make your sites accessable. http://diveintomark.org/
for more (there's a link at the bottom of the page)

Cheers,

Simon

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