Web Accessibility Initiative
Windows PCs aren't the only consumers
of the World Wide Web
- Remember the blind (and that robots also are "blind").
- Check your pages in Lynx
- Avoid 1-pixel GIF tricks
- Tables for tabular, repeating data, not page layout
- No frames!!!
- Use CSS (but avoid absolute positioning)
- Use ALT attributes for all images, or
ALT=""
- Beware of client-side scripts
- See the WAI page.
Others:
- Wireless Application Protocol (WAP),
- Composite Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP),
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Open EBook,
TEI,
Docbook,
the Gutenberg
Project, custom
- All of these are contributing to XHTML.
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Mobile devices may be the catalyst
to real Markup on the web.