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From: Tony Trott
Date: Sep 9, 2002 2:38PM

Hi. A response to an earlier posting of mine got me thinking about 508 and the differences between its accessibility rules and those of Bobby. I did not see any requirements that relative positioning be used instead of absolute positioning in 508. Did I just miss it? Bobby seems to make a big deal of positioning and I'm wondering if relative is, in fact, the way to go for accessibility.

I think relative positioning looks better in general and is certainly not any harder to implement so I will