Comments on: Be Accessible, Don’t Meet Guidelines http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/200610/be-accessible-dont-meet-guidelines/ standards, accessibility, and ranting and general stuff by the web chemist Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:36:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Spider Trax » Be Accessible, Don’t Meet Guidelines http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/200610/be-accessible-dont-meet-guidelines/#comment-7211 Spider Trax » Be Accessible, Don’t Meet Guidelines Mon, 07 May 2007 20:18:46 +0000 http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/200610/be-accessible-dont-meet-guidelines/#comment-7211 [...] time ago, Jack Pickard published a very interesting piece in which he questioned whether too much emphasis was being placed on sites failing 1 or 2 WAI [...] […] time ago, Jack Pickard published a very interesting piece in which he questioned whether too much emphasis was being placed on sites failing 1 or 2 WAI […]

]]> By: ThePickards » Blog Archive » Accessibility In My Own (Foreign) Words http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/200610/be-accessible-dont-meet-guidelines/#comment-7202 ThePickards » Blog Archive » Accessibility In My Own (Foreign) Words Mon, 07 May 2007 15:36:03 +0000 http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/200610/be-accessible-dont-meet-guidelines/#comment-7202 [...] today that Mike Davies from Isolani has picked up on a piece I wrote in October last year called Be Accessible, Don’t Meet Guidelines, in which I tried to argue that WCAG was not infallible, and that it was more important to [...] […] today that Mike Davies from Isolani has picked up on a piece I wrote in October last year called Be Accessible, Don’t Meet Guidelines, in which I tried to argue that WCAG was not infallible, and that it was more important to […]

]]> By: Technikwürze » Technikwürze 42 - Wie sozial ist das Netz wirklich? http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/200610/be-accessible-dont-meet-guidelines/#comment-5981 Technikwürze » Technikwürze 42 - Wie sozial ist das Netz wirklich? Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:25:05 +0000 http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/200610/be-accessible-dont-meet-guidelines/#comment-5981 [...] Pickard nimmt sich im Beitrag Be Accessible, Don’t Meet Guidelines der WCAG-Richtlinien an und klärt auf, dass das Erfüllen dieser Richtlinien eine Seite nicht [...] […] Pickard nimmt sich im Beitrag Be Accessible, Don’t Meet Guidelines der WCAG-Richtlinien an und klärt auf, dass das Erfüllen dieser Richtlinien eine Seite nicht […]

]]> By: Mike Cherim http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/200610/be-accessible-dont-meet-guidelines/#comment-293 Mike Cherim Thu, 12 Oct 2006 13:37:59 +0000 http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/200610/be-accessible-dont-meet-guidelines/#comment-293 Ignore my use of EM in the comment above. That was dumb on my part. Don't know what I was thinking. :p Ignore my use of EM in the comment above. That was dumb on my part. Don’t know what I was thinking. :p

]]> By: Mike Cherim http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/200610/be-accessible-dont-meet-guidelines/#comment-287 Mike Cherim Wed, 11 Oct 2006 23:05:24 +0000 http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/200610/be-accessible-dont-meet-guidelines/#comment-287 Excellent article, Jack. The moral of the story might well be that common sense rules. I wonder, using your Arnie said example, if the best route might be to use em with dfn, the lang and title attributes, then adding visual quotes, This is, of course, assuming titles are supported and not turned off where possible. <code>Arnie said, <em><dfn lang="sp" title="The Meaning">“Hasta la vista</dfn>, baby”</em> </code> Excellent article, Jack. The moral of the story might well be that common sense rules. I wonder, using your Arnie said example, if the best route might be to use em with dfn, the lang and title attributes, then adding visual quotes, This is, of course, assuming titles are supported and not turned off where possible.

Arnie said,
<em><dfn lang="sp"
title="The Meaning">“Hasta la vista</dfn>, baby”</em>

]]> By: Blair Millen http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/200610/be-accessible-dont-meet-guidelines/#comment-285 Blair Millen Wed, 11 Oct 2006 07:06:07 +0000 http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/200610/be-accessible-dont-meet-guidelines/#comment-285 Jack, your examples were well-chosen; I realise that some people will actually follow the guidlelines in this pedantic manner you describe, so on this level your Do's and Don'ts are the perfect starting point. Jack, your examples were well-chosen; I realise that some people will actually follow the guidlelines in this pedantic manner you describe, so on this level your Do’s and Don’ts are the perfect starting point.

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