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| tomw | Subject: Enforce CSS markup for accessible and mobile content? |  |
| ATutor encourages and supports accessible and flexible web design. But perhaps it could go further by having an option to stop content creators using HTML features which make accessibility more difficult. I teach students at the Australian National University to design accessible web pages using a subset of XHTML similar to "XHTML Basic": www.tomw.net.au/2005/wd/index.html#udf This doesn't allow old HTML features to be used and forces the designer to use in-line formatting. The result is that it is easier to produce accessible web pages and even ones which work on a mobile phone. Perhaps ATutor could have an option to enforce this for new content. Posted: 2005-06-06 22:38:14 | ||
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greg | Subject: ATAG Compliance Coming | |
| Forcing users not to use various HTML (XHTML) features is not something we would likely undertake. For practical reasons such enforcement would send people elsewhere if it becomes a burden to content development (which it would). For example if you were importing content created in a non compliant external html editor (most are non-compliant) it would significantly limit the number of tools that could be used to development content for ATutor. We may be able to present warnings when accessibility is potentially compromized, but we can not force them to comply if they choose to ignore the warnings. Even that kind of functionality would be a significant undertaking that would require a funder to support its development. Our solution to this will be to introdcue an ATAG 2 compliant HTML authoring tool, planned for the next development cycle. The accessibility checker is already there, and the two together will go a long way to ensuring content presented in ATutor is accessible. Posted: 2005-06-24 09:10:28 | ||
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| tomw | Subject: Compliant content coming | |
Greg wrote:Forcing users not to use various HTML (XHTML) features... would send people elsewhere if it becomes a burden ... Our solution ... ATAG 2 compliant HTML authoring tool ... Good idea. Would it help if someone else provided a tool to for conversion of external documents? This would be like CourseGenie <http://www.coursegenie.com/>, but free open source and run on Macs and Linux as well as Ms-Windows. A team of Australian National University students developing a system to convert scientific papers into an accessible format <http://www.tomw.net.au/2004/dm/acsepub.html#xpub>. This might be expanded into a general purpose tool.
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