Re: accessibility and usability

In article <xn0dqkwa4tc6wn000 (AT) news (DOT) individual.net>, "kchayka"
<usenet (AT) c-net (DOT) us> wrote:

on 2004-12-01, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:

Forgive me, but I have no idea how a site can be CSS dependant.

Use Opera, or a mozilla browser with the Web Developer toolbar installed.
With stylesheets (and images enabled), go to

URL:http://www.arngren.net/

Then disable CSS and reload.

wow

My ancient Mac OS doesn't give me the option of the toolbar. However, I
did visit the site with MacMozilla 1.2.1. Yikes even with CSS! I think the
point I was trying to make is that CSS "shouldn't" influence what you are
able to read from a site. If it is unreadable, which it shouldn't be,
turning CSS off should present you with a vanilla HTML page and the
information you desire. CSS is unrelated to Javascript or the other
offending example that was given originally, if I remember correctly, in
that it is supposed to "suggest" presentation. Granted, some browsers go
cattywampus when viewing it.
It can certainly be misused by breaking it's own rules. NN4.08 needs
Javascript enabled to get any CSS at all, and ... well, NN4.08 is severely
broken. More ancient browsers ignore it.
If not the reality, the correct idea is implied in that browsers that
can't understand it, should ignore it. I just don't think of a CSS driven
site. Or, I'm still missing something.

leo

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