[WEB4LIB] js/css/dhtml and accessibility (was Re: Free Britannica Going Away)

[Raymond Wood]

Free software like 'Junkbuster' will block web page ads - I know it runs on 
Linux, but I don't know about Windows.

I use a text browser that supports tables and frames for most of my web 
browsing.  This of course eliminates the ads, and speeds up the page downloads. 
 I use a graphical browser when I actually need it.

On a different note, I notice that more web pages are using a combination of 
javascript and CSS to produce 'drop-down' or 'fly-out' menu navigation 
structures.  While these are interesting tools, it does concern me that core 
navigational functionality seems to require client javascript to be activated in 
these cases.  This means that text browsers and browsers with javascript turned 
off may experience more difficulty navigating these kinds of web pages -- or 
does it?  I am curious to know what others on this list think of the fly-out 
menu phenomenon in the context of web page accessibility.

Thoughts?

Raymond

On Mar 16, Tony Barry <me at Tony-Barry.emu.id.au> wrote:
> 
> At 12:16 PM -0800 15/3/01, morganj at iupui.edu wrote:
> >The problem is the obtrusive nature of online ads.  With popup windows,
> >the ads are much more aggresive than in print media.  In print I can skip
> >whole pages of ads if I want; online ads are always either on the page I'm
> >viewing or in a popup window I have to close.  And of course there are the
> >techniques that make closing windows difficult, and ads that mislead you
> >into thinking they are for some other service you want.  Until we have
> >some standards for ethical online advertising, consumers will see them as
> >pollution.
> 
> Use a browser that disables them. I do.
> 
> Tony
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