WebAIM - Web Accessibility In Mind

E-mail List Archives

Re: print-friendly pages (WAS Re: Welcome to the WebAIM Discussion List)

for

From: Austin, Darrel
Date: Feb 3, 2005 1:22PM

> What are people's thoughts about printer-friendly pages and ensuring
> they are accessible.

My thought is that having print friendly pages is a good thing and ensuring
that they are accessible is a good thing.

> Would an AT user ever use this feature?

I don't know. I can say, as someone that doesn't happen to need any AT that
I find print friendly pages very useful. Not only for printing, but reading
online.

> What
> about automatic spawning of the dialog box, is it a good or bad thing
> for this to happen?

The print dialogue box? That's not a good thing. For a few reasons: 1) not
all browsers can support this and 2) it's silly...every web browser already
has a very usable PRINT function (as does most desktop software, for that
matter).

-Darrel