Accessibility - the next step [was Re: Validation Issues....]

At 14:01 6/04/00 -0500, Tamara Abbey wrote:
 >I learned to a) preview in both browsers before uploading; and
 >b) VALIDATE (or at least come close so I know what will work
 >and why). These are things I learned from this list (thank you
 >all for your help and patience these many months).

In my experience, validating to HTML 4 (or 4.01 if you want to be precise) 
virtually ensures your pages are on the way to being Bobby compliant - 
http://www.cast.org/bobby/ - for those who haven't been there lately.

Non-proprietary tags ARE necessary at times, but Bobby compliance is even 
more important - it's currently built along the W3C Accessibility Guidelines.

For those of you who have mastered the "validation syndrome" - here is the 
next step!  Keep in mind these two important concepts:

* the proportion of disabled people shopping online will be higher than the 
proportion shopping in person
* designing for alternative browsers also opens your site to the "browsers 
of the future" (mobile phones, PDA's, etc)


Chris Higgs <c.higgs(at)landfood.unimelb.edu.au>
Institute of Land and Food Resources
University of Melbourne http://www.landfood.unimelb.edu.au

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