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Re: examples of accessible sites

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From: Chris Heilmann
Date: Sep 20, 2004 5:00AM

> * http://www.oxfam.org.uk/
> - surely needs no introduction - commended by the Disability Rights
> Commission here in the UK (http://www.drc-gb.org/)

And I so wonder why. I have no screen reader at hand, but I can forsee
it'll be a nightmare to use (nested tables, no skip links over the
navigation). Even the simplest usability helpers (don't link the current
page, make it obvious this is where you are) are not implemented and the
HTML is riddled with unneccesary attributes and bulky Javascript where CSS
would have done the trick. Using pixels made sure that on IE the text is
not resizable, and the text-only version is (apart from creating a
disabled ghetto) full of design elements like > on own text lines.