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RE: Eforms and Accessability

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From: chris
Date: Aug 18, 2003 12:41PM

Hi Gerard,
I read your post a couple times and I read the question differently each
time:

The first time I thought you might be asking if there were a more accessible
method for outputting html forms -

So, here's my response to that:
HTML is the most common final output to browsers regardless of how it is
output-
1. I can handcode a static html form
2. I can use php/asp/javascript/jsp/xslt to output html form elements that
are dependent upon some action the user takes

The second time I read your question, I realized you might be asking if
there are other markup languages that are more accessible than html?

In which case, there are other markup languages that have specific purposes
- for example, WML (wireless markup language), SVG (for graphics), docbook
(for creating technical documentation) -but HTML (which is transitioning
into xml sometime in the next decade) is specifically for viewing data in a
web browser. If I am using an xml data format, then I can use xslt to
output the same data in html, wml, etc... (hence all the buzz over xslt)

I hope that helps?

-chris





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