Re: Using font . . . ?

This is more opinion than question - but none the less . . .

Ineke,

what you say makes good sense, but I'm not so sure the cart is not in front
of the horse.

I have also heard screen readers "read" markup they didn't understand - and
it can be ugly.

*But* the 'font' tag has been part of non-transitional dtd's for a very
long time now. It is my opinion that these browser folks simply screwed up.
I believe the font tag is depreciated because the "whole world" is moving
to CSS. Where as you know, the font is either declared in another file all
together, or in the head of the document.

Now, perhaps, the screen reader software folks are simply ~miles~ ahead of
NN & MSIE and have put in "exceptional" support for CSS, and "terrible"
support for older (ratified or not) HTML. I don't know - but it certainly
makes it a challenge coding for screen readers _ and _ backwards
compatibility, even *I* can't argue about that !!

FWIW,
Fuzzy.

At 05:26 AM 12/15/01 , Ineke van der Maat wrote:
>Hello Thomas,
>
>The font tag is depreciated because voice-browsers render it very badly.
>When you want that people with only voice-browsers (that are most blind
>people)  also see or better hear  your page reading to them, you must avoid
>a font tag and use CSS to format your texts..
>
>In my eyes blind people have also the democratic right to see my sites.So I
>avoid fonttags and make my pages so accessible as possible, because that
>also benefits all the visitors of my sites..
>Assistive Technologies are often build on DTDs.. the more you are coding
>according to DTD, the more your sites will be rendered well to disabled
>people..
>
>I also learnt that the more span tags I have, the worse my coding  is .  I
>always yield out my span tags as much as possible when I overlook the code
>of one of my pages for a second time..
>
>Greetings
>
>Ineke van der Maat 
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