Re: [Sheflug] Re: New Front Page

["Chris J/#6" <nospam [at] nccnet.co.uk>]

> To be honest, there are usually two classes of web page: those that work
> with anything, and those that only work for one specific end-user target.
> I generally find, though, that it is possible to create pages that
> accommodate all users. I am slightly worried by the fact that people are
> having trouble browsing the site in Lynx, et al. The lack of alt=
> provision is a Bad Thing because it doesn't just impact text users; it
> impacts those with disabilities also (the blind, for example, usually rely
> on alt= tags being read out to them, so that they may navigate the links).
> If you like Richard, I can do some research into whether or not it is
> possible to generate a scaling front page?
> 

It also impacts users who browse with graphics tuned off in Netscape (dunno 
if you can do that in IE) to speed page loading...the site becomes 
unnavigable. I gave up doing this a couple of years back after it seemed to 
be that about 70% of sites I went to also didn't bother with ALT tags...

Just having a look at the book reviews page ... now is this a quirk of 
Netscape's "Composer" (I'm assuming it's composer that's been used looking at 
the GENERATOR META header) -- the images it's laying out for the first row 
.. it's putting the picture on the page in reverse order (ie, right to 
left)...could that be a cause of the rendering going amiss? I've never used 
Composer myself so I don't know how good (or otherwise) it is ...

On the plus side though, the page is looking good :) Richard; I've just 
received your mail along the lines of "is this the thanks I get?" - most of 
the responses have been constructive (in my opinion). Yes, the page is good 
but, like all school reports "there is some room for improvement" :-) I'm 
sure we all apprecaite you doing this work - but we many of us have got our 
own experiences as well, to add to make the site better for *everybody*. I 
must admit, the huge thread this has actually spawned has taken me aback a 
bit, so I can probably understand your wobblyness at the mo.

I *do* like what's been done - the only thing that'd clean it up for me is 
ALT tags ... the screen size is unimportant - I run things close enough to 
1024x768 so I do miss some things that would be noticable at other 
resolutions. But Lynx is one of my faviourite toys (it doesn't take 2 mins to 
load, it's fast, and it ignores all graphics, so browsing is damn quick).

Do things in your own time at your own speed :)

Chris...


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