[thelist] accessibility: suggestions/recommendations forcommercial site and coding standard

[Chris W. Parker]

> Ask your customer.

this website is mainly aimed at government agencies, military to be more
specific. but anyways, will do.

> Ask them what is important to them. Look at the logs to see how many
> customers use NN 4.x.

IE's are about 85-90% of the traffic on one of our other sites. which
has about same audience, but that audience is mainly police and
civilians, so i'd imagine that they would have a different selection of
browsers. i'll have to find out.

> Asking thelist isn't going to solve your problem, especially as most
> inquiries tend to be:
>
> Q: CSS ot tables?
> A: CSS.
> Q: Screw you! I need to make a living! I'll get fired for losing 3% of
> the customer base.
> A: Fine, then don't ask.

oh yeah i know. but i'm not that kind of person. that's why i asked. ;)
since this is my fulltime job and it's pretty secure, i've got some
leverage in what happens with the website(s). so if it's deemed that
XHTML/CSS with all DIV's is a better option than say any old
non-standard way of coding than it's possible it could turn out that
way. although i don't think CSS will beat out the old way of building
websites in this case, i'm just saying it's possible.


chris.

p.s. the site i'm referring to is not up yet. however the site that i
can gather browser statistics is up and reports that IE (all versions
included) is 87.5% of the traffic. and all versions of netscape account
for about 5%. yikes!