[Gllug] Barbican website - accessibility issues

[Stig Brautaset]

On Nov 12 2002, CEvers wrote:
[...]
> compatible with future developments in the browser industry, I do believe
> that an arts site has a duty to be visually interesting/aesthetically
> pleasing - would this be possible if we followed W3C standards to the
> letter?  I'm not convinced.  

I'm not an expert in such matters, but I belive it's possible. Using CSS
(cascading style sheets) one can easily separate content from layout,
making browsers that don't understand CSS (text-only browsers such as
lynx, links, w3m etc) still able to communicate the content back to the
user.

	http://glish.com/css		- some nice examples/tutorials
	http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/	

> I would like to invite 3 or 4 of you down to the Barbican for a chat
> about this (tea and biscuits on me) - how about Gary, Will and
> Linuxlover 

Outstanding initative!

I'm not really sure where the best place to start will be, but I suspect
making the site standards-compliant will be the thing to focus on. I
believe that if the page is made standards-compliant, the issues with
the visually impaired will solve itself automatically (as long as
information is not presented in form of pictures, e.g. textual
information presented only as a gif picture -- my personal pet hate).

Stig
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