Re: Help accessibility [Was: New look of the yelp TOC for review]

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Jeff Waugh wrote:

> <quote who="Bill Haneman">
> 
> > Accessibility guidelines (read, legal stuff) requires that the user not
> > have to apply accessibility styles in several places; the user who needs
> > accessible styles should be able to do it with one stop:
> 
> Okay, but I still don't understand the link between GTK+ theme and the help
> document stylesheets if they're already designed to be accessible. I'd hope
> that we only have one stylesheet for our documentation, and that it be a11y
> happy from the start.
> 

Because "accessible" for one person might not be for another? high 
contrast (well, ok, thats the default) stylesheet won't work for people
needing low contrast. The same for not getting a "large font" effect when
rendering documentation.

> Why would we need to theme documentation?
> 

You don't you merely need to have differently customised docbook xsl
stylesheets.

> - Jeff
> 
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