Please refer back to these guideliens here or to the IBM Special Needs home page in the future. If you are responsible for Web page design, we hope that you will follow these guidelines when designing your site. From Phill Jenkins , IBM Special Needs Systems Where Access has been our business for over 10 years. The guidelines are used in publishing these IBM Special Needs web pages, they should be a resource for you. The following conventions are being proposed.
Browsers format the page differently from each other when graphics are turned off.
Some browsers place the text in the space the image would have taken, others reformat the text and leave no space for the missing image. A site should be designed with mostly plain backgrounds because complicated background patterns can make it difficult for persons with low vision to read the foreground information. If the background has information in it, for example light text messages or color coding, then alternate ways of presenting the information should be considered. Style Sheets describe how documents are presented on screens, in print, or perhaps how they are pronounced or brailled. CSS is one of the greatest hopes for separation of presentation from content.