Comments on: Misunderstanding Accessible Design

By: Taina P. // Sitegrinder

Taina P. // Sitegrinder — Fri, 08 May 2009 12:28:04 +0000

This is a great article. I agree with the other commenter; CSS is very important in designing a web page. While it’s just a design tool, it works much like the petals of a flower: bringing color to a site’s page and attracting visitors to stop by and see what it has to offer.

By: Abdulrehman

Abdulrehman — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:51:05 +0000

Great article, it’s a fact that CSS is not useless at all. To that guy there is a simple exercise, open firefox, go to a website, go to view > Page Style > Select No Style. Probably that tells how a page without CSS is like a man without clothes.

By: Joe Dolson

Joe Dolson — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:36:12 +0000

Thanks, Marc. In fact, there are bookmarking icons; but they aren’t made obvious. If you visit the link “Social bookmark this page,” you’ll have a whole array of options for social bookmarking.

By: Marc Klein

Marc Klein — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 04:02:34 +0000

Some really good info on this blog. And I fully agree with the author regards accessibilty, CSS or XHTML. Should consider adding a bookmarking icon to this blog.

By: Web template

Web template — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 21:49:17 +0000

I enjoy your articles. I will visit your blog again.

Robert

By: Joe Dolson

Joe Dolson — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 14:54:19 +0000

Yeah, that’s why I didn’t go and title my post the same way! I think that Mike Stenhouse was speaking tongue-in-cheek when he wrote that post title, however. Controversy breeds attention, after all.

By: Mike Cherim

Mike Cherim — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:22:44 +0000

I guess I have to agree. CSS is nothing more than a means of making an accessible X/HTML website look pretty. That’s it. A few divs may be added (which are generic containers so it’s all good), and maybe a few spans, which have zero meaning, even the white space between two words has more meaning than the lowly span.

I wouldn’t say CSS is worthless though in that it is a means of preventing developers from creating barriers to access by embedding presentational data into an otherwise accessible site. Some methods of styling and laying out a site, as you know, can destroy its accessibility.

If not for CSS we’d be offering some really plain Jane site or laying them with tables. Hat’s off to CSS.

By: Joe Dolson

Joe Dolson — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 02:17:55 +0000

Thanks for your comments (and your commendation!) I noted that you disagreed with me on one point - which I just wanted to get to, really quickly.

I would disagree with you in that there is no way to make good HTML work on current web browsers without implementing CSS to allow you to have content first, etc.

That’s true. However, I’m not talking about design; that’s one of my points. Design is the process of creating potential barriers to access. Semantic and correct HTML will work flawlessly on all modern browsers - but it won’t look very interesting. It’s CSS which we’ll use to add interest and color to the design, and also to make the content appear to be in the right place, when it’s actually been placed lower or higher in sequence. CSS only controls the visual aspects of the page.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 02:11:30 +0000

Great blog! I’ve added a link to your blog on Blog of the Day under the category of Design. To view the feature of your blog, please visit http://blogoftheday.org/page/111928

Please note that my site uses semantic XHTML and CSS with content first and there are icons under the category headings for re-sizing the font to make it larger for sight impaired viewers.