[Gllug] web site costs

[Dylan]

On Sunday 12 July 2009, James Laver wrote:
> On 12 Jul 2009, at 18:11, Rob Crowther wrote:
> > If you are specifically targeting disabled then, while free CRM type
> > systems such as Drupal and Wordpress are still a good option, you
> > ought
> > to take special care with accessibility:
>
> Depending on the nature of the disability, of course.
>
> If it's for physical disabilities such as being wheelchair bound,
> using a table-free layout won't really help.

Good design is good design whether you are specifically catering for disabled 
users or not. A clear, un-cluttered layout with logical structure should be a 
given for any web site - 'fancy' effects (like roll-over menus, for example) 
are a pain even for 'fully able' users, and sites where controls only appear 
when you hover over them (like facebook) can be a minefield. Too much colour 
is a common problem, as is too much spangly, animated graphics. But of 
course, used properly CSS is perfectly capable of providing a variety of 
layouts suitable for various needs and it's trivial to give clear links which 
will switch to a different layout. My main gripe is sites which don't scale 
properly - either they run sideways out of the window, or graphics end up 
obscuring enlarged text; both of these are due to ill-considered definitions 
of borders and image positioning in the main.

Dx

>
> --James (who believes in always developing accessible websites anyway)



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