Just Because a Site Uses CSS
May 2nd, 2003Following up on yesterday’s accessibility tip, Tanya Rabourn notes that Mac users can test a page in link only view with IE 5. Tanya tells us, "Make sure explorer bar is visible (bottom left of your browser), choose a page to test, then on the explorer bar, select ‘pageholder.’ In the pageholder select ‘add’. Then select links. You’ll see only the links from your page. If all your links are ‘click here,’ you’ll see a big list of click here’s." That would be a bad thing.
Also on accessibility, just because a site uses CSS, does not mean that the markup is accessible. Jim Byrne has noticed a new generation of sites that have the following problem: "Headings, paragraphs, quotes, lists and inline elements such as strong and em are being replaced with neutral or inappropriate tags, and merely styled to look like headings, paragraphs, lists or inline elements." Lack of logical structure leaves a page that reads poorly on assistive technology, and other devices for that matter. Link via Shirley Kaiser; Shirley is one of my West Coast friends.
A new exhibit at Newman Library, Baruch College, CUNY commemorates a Kent State memorial held at Baruch College, May 6, 1970. This simple but powerful exhibit contains photographs, articles, and audio files from that day, just over thirty-two years ago.