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Re: Article from Web Reference on Web Accessibility

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From: Chris Heilmann
Date: Jul 19, 2004 9:37AM


> FEATURE: Accessibility and the Web
>
> Accessiblity to the web is generally taken for granted, except
> when a site is slow or unavailable. Here, you'll learn about
> techniques to make your web site more accessible. Some are
> relatively simple, while others require a little work. By Lee
> Underwood.
>
> http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&;amp;s=1,10ju,1,984j,5n4s,69qm,lg1g

This is another article, which means well, but omits so many obstacles
that it is not even funny. What is the use of showing accesskeys via some
Javascript when there are still a lot of implementation issues[1]? 99% of
"accessibility is good and we need it" articles talk about technical
solutions (that may break or even not make sense) where not a lot of them
talk about the real usability issues. Usable accessibility measures is
what we need, not accessibility as the new rotating @ sign.
[1] http://www.wats.ca/articles/accesskeys/19


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