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Tailslide -> Accessibility on BBC 24's Click (10/28/2006 3:16:35)

Following on from last week's look at accessible hardware, this week BBC 24's Click programme has been looking at Accessible websites.

There's a brief description here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/6090418.stm but the RealPlayer (urg!) version won't apparently be available until Sunday at 16:30 as it's still last week's one on there now.

Also good is that they don't just emphasise accessibility as something for the blind which tends to happen.



jaybee -> RE: Accessibility on BBC 24's Click (10/28/2006 6:38:09)

Nice they had a quote from Leonie.



d a v e -> RE: Accessibility on BBC 24's Click (10/28/2006 7:13:22)

Website designer, Leonie Watson says: "There's a technology called Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) that allows you to control the way a page is displayed, such as the colour of the text and background.

"So if that's the way a page has been built, then you can control that from within the browser or OS.

"However, that's quite a new technology, it's only been around a couple of years, and a lot of designers are still very wary of using it. They actually hard code the colours into the web page itself, which means that they can't be overridden by your browser, or OS."

a couple of years? not!
ok so i've only been *using* it for about 5 years, warily at first - but i think hardly any designers hard-code colours into the web page itself!



jaybee -> RE: Accessibility on BBC 24's Click (10/28/2006 9:25:19)

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i think hardly any designers hard-code colours into the web page itself!

Really! Go take a look at pretty much any site developed with Frontpage and you'll see <body background=#000000> and various other combinations. Admittedly the pros are getting better but there are still many "web designers" out there who just hit the font and colour buttons on the toolbar.

Leonie, although a web designer, is blind and if anyone knows, believe me, she does.



d a v e -> RE: Accessibility on BBC 24's Click (10/28/2006 13:17:22)

frontpage? ah thought we were talking about designers, not button pushers ;)

only kidding - don't bother ranting on about how equally valid sites can be made with whatever tool: i know :)



jaybee -> RE: Accessibility on BBC 24's Click (10/30/2006 3:29:00)

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frontpage? ah thought we were talking about designers, not button pushers ;)
I think you'd be surprised how many web designers use FP. Admittedly not the large design houses, they just push Dreamweaver's buttons, but the one man bands.

Take a look behind a few professional sites on your way round the web. I keep finding hard coded fonts and colours all over the place.



jaybee -> RE: Accessibility on BBC 24's Click (11/1/2006 17:15:29)

I was just doing some shopping online on the Tesco store site. Noticed that they'd made some accessibility changes to incorporate both the main store and the access store into one. The access info page says they're still working on it as people on Web TV have had a problem.

Ha I thought, we'll see how good it is. Well you could have knocked me down with a feather.

There are a few HTML errors, the login page fails Cynthia with one duplicate link name, otherwise OK.

The store itself passes with flying colours to level 3! Every page I went on to get groceries, household stuff etc, I ran through Cynthia and not one failed!

Congratulations Tesco!



d a v e -> RE: Accessibility on BBC 24's Click (11/2/2006 10:32:24)

did you give them that feeback? ;)



jaybee -> RE: Accessibility on BBC 24's Click (11/2/2006 12:44:20)

I've emailed their Head Office.



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