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Re: Re[2]: Include default text?

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From: Jukka K. Korpela
Date: Oct 21, 2004 3:35PM

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, glenda wrote:

> I definitely don't rely solely on Bobby to determine accessibility.

Bobby should be ignored. Some experts who really know what it does and how
wrong it works in many ways might find it a useful tool, but I doubt that.

> I'll look at the W3C icons too.

Don't. Accessibility icons work against accessibility. This becomes
evident if you even once look at your page and imagine that you are one
of the people to whom accessibility matters. What could _they_ possibly
benefit from the icons? They are just distraction, pointless enigmas and
disturbance.

But you can look at the W3C WAI guidelines and checklists, of course.
Just remember that they are not accessibility. They cover some aspects of
accessibility, mostly in a right way, but only partially.

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Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/