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From: Peter Krantz
Date: Sep 17, 2007 2:00PM

On 9/17/07, Sean Keegan < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> They did agree that there
> were accessibility issues.

A quick look at Gmail in Fangs shows a table based layout, primarily
generated by javascript. Icons lack the alt attribute. User
interaction requires javascript and updates occur without reloading
the page.

There is, however, a "basic html" version of Gmail which may work
better in some cases. It still has a table based layout but page
updates seem to work in pre web 2.0 way.

Regards,

Peter