| 1 |
On Sunday 01 April 2007, Jeff Rollin wrote: |
| 2 |
> Hi list |
| 3 |
> |
| 4 |
> I like the new look of the website, but how on Earth does anyone make any |
| 5 |
> sense of the links? Purple on black is a really bad idea, and that's from |
| 6 |
> someone who doesn't have any accessibility issues with websites. |
| 7 |
> |
| 8 |
> Should this be filed as a bug? |
| 9 |
> |
| 10 |
> Jeff |
| 11 |
|
| 12 |
This has nothing to do with the accessibility of the website, it inflects the |
| 13 |
usability, which is something completely different. |
| 14 |
What isn't accessible is the layout which is based on tables, changing this to |
| 15 |
div's will increase the accessibility and the opportunity to easily create |
| 16 |
new designs. |
| 17 |
The menus are awfull, I mean, come on, <a> tags separated by pipes? Imagine |
| 18 |
what text to speech software would make from that... What's wrong with using |
| 19 |
<ul> which is basically made for this? |
| 20 |
|
| 21 |
Anyway, if you want to talk about accessibility, the first thing you should do |
| 22 |
is ask yourself the question if you know what accessibility is. If the answer |
| 23 |
to that question is no, then stick with the term usability. |
| 24 |
|
| 25 |
some guidelines to get the website more accessible: http://www.w3.org/WAI/ |
| 26 |
|
| 27 |
Greetings, |
| 28 |
|
| 29 |
Thomas |
| 30 |
-- |
| 31 |
gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |
Archives