Re: [Haskell wikibook] Using XHTML Elements in the Wikibook
I am not suggesting there's any problem. all I'm saying is that a more effective use of XHTML elements would increase accessibility. for example, more headings, lists. Perhaps we could even use CSS if the wiki framework allows it. The wikibook is, and I repeat, fully navigable for the most part but
that shouldn't preclude us from striving for perfection. Paul
Fortunately, the Haskell Wikibook is for the most part fully navigable; however, the inclusion of XHTML elements would increase accessibility hugely.
But the Wiki markup is transformed to XHTML anyway; if you download e.g. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell, that's pure XHTML, not Wiki markup. What's the problem?
-- -David House, dmhouse@gmail.com
Hi again, Thanks for the clarification. I do somewhat appreciate the inherent difficulties that blind users may have accessing online material (my office mate is also blind; he uses a refreshable braille device, and navigates in a 1x40 window using the text browser Lynx). Thanks for reminding us that it is an important issue. You might want to take this up with the wikipedia folks, as they are a larger wikimedia foundation project and surely have more experience with accessibility than wikibooks do. For instance, here is a page of wikipedia accessibility guidelines: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Accessibility
The wikibook is, and I repeat, fully navigable for the most part but that shouldn't preclude us from striving for perfection.
I think what David was asking was what explicit XHTML in the markup in source would add in terms of accesibility benefits, since the wiki syntax is automatically converted to XHTML anyway for browsing... -- Eric Kow http://www.loria.fr/~kow PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9 Merci de corriger mon français.
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