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

[Shawn Parker <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I wish more web developers would embrace standards based coding and 
semantic web design principles.  Alas, people have a hard time with 
change.  Especially designers and developers.

It is especially easy to make menus with XHTML and CSS now.  Which would 
eliminate the very problem you're having.

:)

Mike Miller wrote:

> 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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