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Re: Creative accessible web pages

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From: John Middleton
Date: Feb 19, 2002 4:42PM

Accessible perhaps by a few... Try increasing the font size on that
page via your browser Prefs.
Macintosh Outspoken reads from top left to right line by line. Try
deciphering meaningful content of your site/s with this in mind.

The W3C/WAI site is a better example.
<http://www.w3.org/WAI/>;http://www.w3.org/WAI/

This is where artistic impressions and accessibility collide.

Why is it that speech friendly is never mentioned?
Accessible for the latest and greatest application and OS's only.... go figure?
Where does accessible start (Windows 2000, ME, XP?) (sorry Mac, Linux, BeOS)
What about other platform and older Software (SW), and not so old SW
technologies? (eg. Current Mac Outspoken).

Many sites may pass accessibility validator's but still far from
accessible by ALL!

I may have missed the message that said PC Windows 98, JAWS 4.X was
the accessibility baseline.
I never compare I simply learn and implement to the best of my
abilities with what I have to work with. These tools mentioned here
help us discover accessibility aspects no matter what level developer
you are.
Some are just getting started while other think they're experts.

Ask your friend to close his eye's and tell you which site is boring.
You may discover your priorities need to be reconsidered. Don't take
me wrong, I'm not knocking any example, I'm wanting to learn more
from such examples and learn from them reading these messages. I'm
in the same boat, learning, implementing, and trying my best, myself.


JM



>I think this is a good example:
>http://www.odos.uiuc.edu/
>
>Jon
>
>
>At 08:47 AM 2/18/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>>I am looking for web pages that are creatively designed visually
>>and also follow accessibility guidelines (at least Priority one W3C
>>guidelines, following Priority 3 would be ideal). I want to show
>>off these pages to web designers to emphasize the point that
>>accessibility doesn't mean boring. It would be great if there was
>>an awards program for the best creative web sites that meet
>>accessibility guidelines. Is there anything out there?
>>
>>Kevin Price
>>Coordinator-Assistive Computing Resource Center (ACRC)
>>Academic Computing and Media
>>California State University, San Bernardino
>>5500 University Parkway / PL-002
>>San Bernardino, CA 92407-2397
>>909-880-5079 FAX 909-880-7075
>>
>>
>>
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>Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP
>Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology
>Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services
>MC-574
>College of Applied Life Studies
>University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
>1207 S. Oak Street, Champaign, IL 61820
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