SCN: websites to feature

[patrick]

I am sure most webmasters have decided not to worry about the Lynx
crowd.

If 99 percent of the people that come to their site uses browser x or
browser y, then they will 'program' for those and write off the 1
percent. They probably think they shouldn't spend 20 percent of their
time for that 1 percent.

It depends who your audience is. If your audience ONLY serfs the web
to get the lastest and hotest game updates, then I doubt someone with
a dial-in connection is going to care much. They may have a 386.

However, if your site is text driven, community driven, you may be
more considerate to all browsers. Include WebTV? Include AOL? Include
Palms? Put a detector in your html and build for each browser?

Or use the K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple) system and throw in some CCS for
the ADA crowd (which I think is a great idea), if you are pouring out
information and that is your mission in life.

But I don't feel I should have to make my site compatible with the
first browsers that ever came out. If 5 people on the planet use a
particular browswer, I am not going to be considerate of them.

I think Lynx is great. The fact that it does drop-down menus and I
can check my Yahoo mail - well, that is incredible.

How many people use it? I don't think it is that hard to program for
the Lynx crowd. I assume it is easy to screw up and not make it easy
for them.

But your basic Meat-and-Potatoes web site? That should handle links,
I should think.

Patrick





--- Lois Beedle <ljbeedle at scn.org> wrote:
> I seem to have missed something.  We went from discussing featuring
> websites to what links to have.  As a topic editor I link to
> anything
> anyone requests that fits into my topic whether I agree with their
> point
> of view or not, whether I can 'see' their page or not. I do not
> feel that
> SCN desires to hold anyone else to the standard that I thought we
> had for
> our own information providers.
> 
> But I do feel strongly that accessibility is a serious matter and I
> thought that was what we were all about.  When I use lynx I expect
> to be
> able to 'see' any page hosted on scn.  That is not always the case.
>  I
> would expect that any site featured by scn would be 'seeable' by
> me.
> 
> Folks need to know that one can have an good looking interesting
> page on
> scn - with some bells and whistles for graphics folks and still be
> accessible by those who can not see all the fancy stuff.  What
> better way
> than featuring them?
> 
> When I built my first two sites I was never able to see them on
> line with 
> a graphics browser.  I still put up graphics that others enjoyed -
> with
> alt tags for the rest of us.
> 
> Lois
>  Dip it in chocolate, it'll be fine.
> 
> On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Scot Harkins on scn.org wrote:
> 
> > I tend towards the inclusive attitude for links, even external
> links that
> > may not follow our web design standards.
> > 
> > Lynx may seem out of date but it's actually a gateway to broad
> usability.
> > We are one of the few Webster _in the world_ that can be browsed
> by visually
> > impaired users with browser devices that render web pages to
> Braille or that
> > navigate sites in visually simple ways.  I don't know that we are
> actually
> > pursuing the ADA standards, but the fact that we are both a
> community
> > resource and an accessible resource is unique.
> > 
> > The web has exploded as a world full of eye-candy, which only
> works for
> > those with eyes that can see.  Those few sites trying to address
> ADA
> > standards feature either a low-graphic version of their site or
> actually
> > seek to detect the remote browser and load browser-targeted
> pages.  Each of
> > these requires parallel site development.  Keeping a focus on
> simple design
> > standards make the pages easier to browse for all users.
> > 
> > In 20 years the majority of the people in our country will be
> over 65 years
> > old.  How many of them will appreciate our continuing efforts and
> the
> > efforts of others to make the information world easier to use?
> > 
> > 
> > Scot
> > 
> 
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