atw: Re: MS Publisher
- From: Hedley Finger <hfinger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:11:47 +1100
Christine:
What else?
Can your pages be read by a screen reader? Pages styled with CSS files
can have the displayed page in one order or layout but a different order
for the screen reader software. My niece is functionally blind and you
should hear the shocking language from such a sweet young girl when her
screen reader encounters a page that has been formatted with tables. It
is extremely important that the @alt attribute always contains suitable
descriptive text, for example, "Image" is not a suitable alt text for
'Logo of Yarra Valley Water'.
There are plenty of articles at A List Apart about applying CSS files to
pages so that they will present correctly on screen, in print (in a
layout that just preserves the content and omits the menu header,
side-columns and all the other navigational bumf), and as text suitable
for a screen reader.
Regards,
Hedley
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