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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.
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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!
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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 :)
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RE: Accessibility on BBC 24's Click - 11/2/2006 10:32:24
did you give them that feeback? ;)
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