Looking for some thoughts and comments on w3c standards and accessibility.
ANyone here routinely use media-specific and/or aural stylesheets?
Can you offer us some pointers?
Or perhaps you have some questions?
In my experience, there are two very important components to accessibility:
1) Making sure that the tab order makes sense for those who navigate with a keyboard. You can get away with using the tabindex attribute for your form elements sometimes, but it's best to ensure that the order of your elements in your source matches the way they'll be tabbed through by your users.
2) Making sure that the page "degrades" gracefully if the user is using something like a screen reader, etc. This touches a lot of bases, including making sure that your page renders in the proper order when your stylesheet isn't enabled, as well as making sparing use of tables, if at all (screen readers have a really hard time with tables).
I hope that helps somewhat; of course, there are a lot of other concerns, and you can use things like aural stylesheets to ameliorate some of the difficulties, as you suggested (though I haven't used them myself).
Good luck, in any case!
Personally, I rarely use tables - and never for positioning. I think this is a very good comment, Esch. For me, I've been settling for a page that still functions logically without the stylesheet(s). I'm not always sure if that cuts the mustard from an accessibility point of view...
I agree about access keys. ANy guidelines/conventions for using access keys - to make it easier and more intuitive to use?
