September 2002
Intermediate to advanced
640 pages
11h 9m
English
In this chapter, we’ll explore yet another powerful tool in the repertoire of accessible design: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). CSS is a language, like HTML, and is likewise under the auspices of the W3C. Used in tandem with HTML (or XML), CSS gives Web designers powerful tools for controlling the presentation of documents on the Web. The CSS2 specification introduced in 1998 (approximately a year and a half after CSS1 was published) includes the potential, as yet unrealized, for controlling the way documents are rendered in Braille, print, or synthetic speech. The CSS3 specification, currently in Working Draft, will give developers even more flexibility and control. But browser support for CSS has been slow ...
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