{"id":337,"date":"2004-03-27T13:06:30-05:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-27T21:06:30+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/wordpress\/?p=337"},"modified":"2005-02-18T23:23:10-05:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-19T04:23:10+00:00","slug":"standards-are-not-accessibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2004\/03\/27\/standards-are-not-accessibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Standards are not&nbsp;accessibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mezzoblue.com\/archives\/2004\/03\/26\/standardsbas\/index.php\">Dave Shea<\/a> is impressed at the standards-based design evident in a number of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalmediaminute.com\/archives\/000550.html\">student portfolios<\/a>, and I&#8217;ll agree with him to a point: a lot of them look very nice.  However, he fails to note that many are <strong>completely inaccessible<\/strong> to non-graphical users; some, in fact, can&#8217;t even be used by those with recent <cite class=\"term\">traditional<\/cite> browsers.  To wit:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"example\">\r\n<h4>Invisible<\/h4>\r\n<pre>[Document has only hidden links. Use the 'l'ist command.]<\/pre>\r\n<p>In a non-CSS browser:<\/p>\r\n<pre><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"exact\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/2004\/03\/27\/invisible\" alt=\"Browser window showing a blank page\" \/><\/pre>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"example\">\r\n<h4>Linkless wonder<\/h4>\r\n<pre>Headless Wonder<\/pre>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"example\">\r\n<h4>The what now?<\/h4>\r\n<pre>These  were  team  based  projects  which  took  lots  of planning and\r\nco-operation by all team members. Both these projects\r\nare  100%  standards compliant, built using XHTML, css, and flash.   -\r\n(To view one of the projects click on the above pictures.)<\/pre>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>As their teacher says, <q cite=\"http:\/\/www.digitalmediaminute.com\/archives\/000550.html\">the results speak for themselves!<\/q>  It might be worth taking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veen.com\/jeff\/archives\/000503.html\">a page from Jeffrey Veen&#8217;s book<\/a> for his next course: <q cite=\"http:\/\/www.veen.com\/jeff\/archives\/000503.html\">when Web design is practiced as a craft, and not a consolation, accessibility comes for free.<\/q><\/p><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dave Shea is impressed at the standards-based design evident in a number of student portfolios, and I&#8217;ll agree with him to a point: a lot of them look very nice. However, he fails to note that many are completely inaccessible to non-graphical users; some, in fact, can&#8217;t even be used by those with recent traditional&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"venue_id":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}