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From: Karl Groves
Date: Mar 28, 2006 3:40PM

I just checked one of our sites that use FCKEditor in Lynx to see what
happened. Everything degraded well. Lemme explain why this is important:

One of the problems you're going to find when you're looking onto
browser-based WYSIWYG editors is that they ALL rely on client-side scripting
in order to generate the widgets and for the widgets themselves to input the
formatted text into the <textarea> it is using to POST into the form.
Naturally, any user-agent that does not cope well with client-side scripting
is *really* not going to do well with one of these things.

FCKEditor, when using Lynx, presented the <textarea> without any of the
WYSIWYG goodies. That's a good thing, IMO, because at least it didn't break
altogether. To me, that's a "pass". It might not be 100% equivalent access,
but I'm not even sure such a thing is possible in this case.

Karl L. Groves
User-Centered Design, Inc.
Office: 703-729-0998
Mobile: 443-889-8763
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Web: http://www.user-centereddesign.com

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