Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] firefox, web accessability, and the programto make it all better

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Jonathan King wrote:

> I have sent email to the person responsible at Ellis, and I'll find out 
> what she says.  I'm guessing some good could even come of things in this 
> case.  But, in general, does anybody know a nice and effective way to 
> get people to change a less accessible site?
>
> I think that the best way might be just to give them the code to change 
> things.  Once you've gotten some tweaks made, you can generate even a 
> semi-custom nav bars using CSS and html pretty much programatically. 
> You could then tell people, "Hear, just paste these lines in place of 
> what you have" (or do the surgery for them) and they could see that it 
> worked, looked good, degraded more nicely, and was just the Right thing 
> to do.
>
> So does anybody know whether anybody has already started a campaign like 
> this?  It really did just hit me this could have real legs these days.


If there is some sort of web czar on campus, I'd go there.  If there isn't 
such an office, I'd recommend that they create one.  Otherwise, I'd point 
and click and grumble, but I wouldn't mount a campaign!  Think of how much 
time it will take away from more important work.

Mike
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