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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Paul Sutton wrote: > Passed on comments, he said thanks, just to mention it's his first site > using notepad, and psp for the images, what did u mean by the <blink> > <marquee tags> good or bad. Not really my field, Nick Kew is the expert around here, but you might have to pay him, sandals, and beard shampoo don't grow on trees, but I think the purists objected to "BLINK" because it says how to render something, rather than indicating the significance/type of information presented. Hence tags that instruct the browser to "emphasise" the text, allowing different forms of emphasis on different platforms. But I'm not sure braille readers would handle blink or marquee, or say speech converters. That said if it made the standard, someone will have had to decide how it is rendered. Simon, who had to change his terminal settings, because he can't read Lynx's blue text on a black background this week, now where is Lynx's colour settings, the manual tells me how to switch colour off. PS: I've joined the Blind Linux list to learn more on these issues, and I did like this quote from the FAQ. "The best output a blind person using WYSIWYG software can hope for is getting no output at all." - --anonymous geek So far the main thing I've learnt is that most people with visual impairment use mainstream web browsers, and software, with various accessibility aids. I'd assumed Lynx would be favoured (it is more widely used but not much), not least all those sites with deliberately small text - don't you just hate it when people send you HTML email with small text? Linux is well supported for people with braille, but for less dramatic impairment consistency of graphical user interface is a key issue. Also for other disabilities keyboard only and mouse only control helps then navigate apps. Correct mark-up is crucial to websites, to make the various tools work, both for the visually impaired and those using unusual access methods. One of the compelling examples on the RNIB website is a car that has a hands free, eyes free, web browser, not designed for the blind but for the motorist. Not least accessible information is the LAW, so broken mark-up may be a crime, like many of us thought it was. RNIB recommend 14 point characters, with 12 as an absolute minimum, so fix the defaults in your Word Processors, big is beautiful. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+6EGXGFXfHI9FVgYRAp8uAKCkDvna4rBlYtaKLv2BEGHLyaQSHgCgxs88 Pew7LNox8q3MtNYSj29yUtw= =CJJB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.