Re: WingDings in the navigation links

In this case the designer only specified

BODY { font-family: serif; }

in the style sheet, which would not have cause this problem unless a browser
used wing-dings as its default 'serif' font.

Give the guy a break.  If you look at the source code, you see there's
nothing unusual in it.  Personally, I've never heard of a browser defaulting
to wing-dings,  but since he said the people with the problem all worked for
the same city (and presumably all had the same IT support) I would tend to
believe that there was a browser-related problem, since the wing-dings font
was -never- mentioned on the page.

If this was my problem,  I would:
 - first, have a discussion with the people having the problem as to the
set-up of the browser they are using (and which browser, specifically, it
is)
- second, change the style sheet to list a couple of fonts which are
typically loaded on the operating systems my customers are using before
defaulting to a 'font-family:serif' designation.

No, I've naver heard of a browser behaving this way,  but it does seem that
a lot of web work consists of tweaking html and css for things that
shouldn't have to be tweaked for just to accomodate the variations out
there.  I want to reach people so I do it.

Best regards,
Kim Mitchell


----- Original Message -----
From: <bryan.westbrook(at)amd.com>
To: <hwg-basics(at)mail.hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 3:22 PM
Subject: RE: WingDings in the navigation links


> In this case, it's the fault of the designer who chooses such an
> inappropriate font for the page.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: seecurb [mailto:seecurb(at)naspa.net]
> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 1:53 PM
> To: Westbrook, Bryan; hwg-basics(at)mail.hwg.org
> Subject: Re: WingDings in the navigation links
>
>
> So, whose fault is that? After all, the Wing-dings font was not designed
for
> the blind.
> please reply to: seecurb(at)bigfoot.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <bryan.westbrook(at)amd.com>
> To: <hwg-basics(at)mail.hwg.org>
> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 12:58 PM
> Subject: RE: WingDings in the navigation links
>
>
> > That is probably one of the worst disability access offenses I've ever
> heard
> > of.
> >
> > Do you realize that to a blind person using an audible reader your
> WingDings
> > (Dingbats to you Mac users) will be read as actual text.  I hate to
think
> > what you could be unintentionally saying to your readers.
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: jtpolk(at)texas.net [mailto:jtpolk(at)texas.net]
> > Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 11:02 AM
> > To: hwg-basics(at)mail.hwg.org
> > Subject: WingDings in the navigation links
> >
> >
> > I have a page that shows up for some users with the top links showing up
> > as the WindDing font. The users that see this are all in a city's
> > network, and no one outside the network can see the problem.
> >
> >
>
>

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