Comments on: Accessibility…who does it REALLY help?

By: Darrel

Darrel — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 15:59:54 +0000

Michael:

I’ll look into that. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:51:14 +0000

You talk allot about accessibility and how it relates to the Web, but the first thing I notice about your own site is the fixed pixel font sizing. I can barely read the articles in IE and I have no way of increasing the font. At least in Firefox I can resize the text to fit my needs. You might want to change your font-sizing to em and remove the tiny defaults in favor of 1.0em. At the very least you should provide an ID on the HTML element that would allow me to restyle the site as necessary.

By: Garrick Van Buren

Garrick Van Buren — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 19:10:56 +0000

on a related from Accessibility is Effective Search Engine Optimizaition: "The goal of accessibility is to make web content accessible to as many people as possible, including those who experience that content under technical, physical, or other constraints. It may be useful to think of search engines as users with substantial constraints: they canâ€™t read text in images, canâ€™t interpret JavaScript or applets, and canâ€™t â€œviewâ€ many other kinds of multimedia content."

By: Darrel

Darrel — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 00:07:02 +0000

Completely understood, Joe. But I also realize sometimes numbers are necessary for the argument from a political standpoint.

I’m also trying not to equate accessibility as being solely a disabled user issue, as it proper accessibility considerations benefit all.

By: Joe Clark

Joe Clark — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 23:03:00 +0000

Raw disability statistics are not meaningful in discussing Web accessibility. We don’t have really reliable statistics on disabled Web users.