It was annoying that the first web site I had to rewrite belonged to the non-profit. It was a disaster and unusable by a “reader”. It was all graphics, most of them in motion, and too much of the text was blinking. I flat told them it had to be the number site on the web for generating a migraine or an grand mal seizure.
There are tools for verifying accessibility and standards compliance, but if you don’t hand code you can’t be sure.
I had to pull the countdown clocks on the sidebar because IE doesn’t deal with Javascript in a sane manner, mostly because they use their version of Javascript which isn’t standard.
Standards are nice, and the Internet certainly supplies a wide variety to choose from 😈
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]]>I don’t like flash and embedded media for many reasons, one being there are no standards for it as yet, and many browsers roll their own (incompatible) additions to the HTML 4 standard and have not (and will not be) ratified.
There are many ‘style guides’ around, some much better than others. 🙂 But as you say, no standards (I doubt there ever will be!) I tend to stick with the W3C style guidelines as my base, especially for ‘Accessibility’, but there are others also. I generally use strict XHTML 1.1 and CSS 2 (for now), and I’m keeping an eye on XHTML 2 and HTML 5 developments. I love standards! Especially the way they change! LOL
To me, accessibility to a broad audience, and ease of use are key. Of course, site design depends on the target audience, and many site designers fail to properly identify that target, it’s an art. Asking questions, and knowing what questions to ask, is a start. 😉 🙂
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In my case I would be paying bandwidth charges for downloading to my site and then uploading to the visitor. It isn’t a lot of money, but why tie up the ‘Net twice by relaying it?
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