[thelist] Perkins School for the Blind's new site

Ben Gustafson Ben_Gustafson at lionbridge.com
Fri Sep 13 09:36:01 CDT 2002


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The Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Massachusetts, recently
launched a new site designed for access by the blind and visually impaired
(http://www.perkins.pvt.k12.ma.us). It features configurable readability via
CSS and cookies, and shows that you can design a good-looking site and still
keep it fully accessible.

I was struck, though, by its lack of a traditional navigation bar, relying
instead on the home page or site map (along with links within the current
section at the bottom of the page). Does an accessible site need to be
harder to navigate?

The writeup in the Boston Globe shows the danger of writing about a
technology you half understand. It says that, "Using Cascading Style Sheets
technology, the site offers a customization feature that allows users to
select a variety of settings[...]. CSS creates a database of the user's
preferences and is easily updated."
(http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/255/west/Perkins_School_expands_its_Web_s
ite_for_blind+.shtml) Since when is CSS a database?

--Ben



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