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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Adrian Midgley wrote: > On Wednesday 25 June 2003 16:47, you wrote: > > >>Can screen-readers not cope with tables? What is it about CSS >>that makes it easier to "read"? > > > I believe they are not very good at it. Ignore screenreaders for a moment, set your minimum font size to 14pt, on an 1024x768 display, the following URL is totally unusable, as the continue button is hidden by the other cells. http://www.jobcentreplus.gov.uk/cms.asp?Page=/Home/Customers/SearchforaJob The "text only" version is no more accessible. So one gov site totally fails on accessibility, despite the mark-up being "almost" correct, by dint of using tables and frames. Most visually impaired people use ordinary browsers, but take advantage of features like minimum font size, or local style sheets, (or anything else they can figure out how to work!) to avoid having to strain their eyes. The validators at www.w3.org explain most of the common mistakes, and in most cases why they are evil, and how you should do it instead. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE++hU1GFXfHI9FVgYRAo/pAKDQyTs48Gx5zi0bvfnTGkMTxj9pZgCghkXU an3Tfsa5Fz++WCbqScrrNHg= =fDFs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.