And, as in my college days, I stayed up late at night, talking with my cyberfriends about the trivia of daily life. Like most people who build a personal web page, I hoped for a page that would be enjoyed by many, and that would present the information I chose to share in a pleasing, attractive way. The newsgroup has proponents of almost every gimmick known to web pages, and several clear voices make good points on any side of a discussion. Some users of the WWW are visually impaired and use textual browsers such as Lynx, for surfing. Others have different impairments, such as hearing loss or developmental disabilities.
Some people have slow connections and turn off the images to the loading of pages.
Others, like me, prefer having a choice about features which I refer to as gimmicks, such as frames, audio, video, Java applets, and large quantities of bandwidth-devouring animation. For these people, accessibility is an important issue. And for many, at this point, HTML 2.0 standards are the ones which their browsers support. It is really no more difficult to make a site accessible than to make it inaccessible. The outline will help you to keep your thoughts organized, your words clear, and your design coherent.