Re: Style Sheets (was RE: Table Width/Heights)

On the other hand, I think this might be part of the answer to providing
improved accessibility. I have previously been informed that at least some
screen readers simply read across from table cell to table cell, so that
something with three columns and quite understandable visually is hard or
impossible to follow for the blind.

The question is: do such types of screenreader read the text in the order it
is in the source, or do they still try to read across the screen when
positioning is done only with CSS?  If you view the page in NN4, what is
rendered would be OK for any screen reader.

Andrew Armstrong

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> tamara hunted and pecked out this message on 2/19/2002 7:03 PM
>
> >http://alistapart.com/index.html or
http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/
>
> I simply dismiss sites like these. It's not like their "design" (if they
> had any) can't be done more easily in the simplest HTML as there are no
> special effects or such. It even says you need javascript to see the
> yellow one, totally overkill IMHO.
> For many, CSS is hard to learn, understand, and memorize. And if it's not
> necessary why even use it, unless as a garnish.
> I call it design snobbery and there is no excuse for it. As far as so
> called "standards" hasn't anybody ever heard of competition? Some
> browsers like IE and Netscape 6 just don't behave well.
> I don't mind coding for Netscape, in fact, since it's the least crashy
> browser (very stable on my system) and it's the 100% choice of my target
> audience. I simply code with it, then check in the others and I can be
> sure everyone is happy, even the sometimes wanderer-in who is using IE or
> AOL.
>
>

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