Issues

Accessible design is not just about making sites easier to navigate and read for people with disabilities, it's also about making web sites easy to use for anyone who has an alternative browser. There are browsers with text-only modes, browsers on hand held devices, monochrome displays, kiosks and aural browsers. We should design for everyone who uses the web, not just those in front of a desk, looking at a monitor.

Cascading Style Sheets contain rules for the presentation of text in web pages and can be used to control colours, fonts and the layout of HTML elements from which web pages are made. CSS enable a web site's presentation to be separated from its content and structure.

There is an evolution that takes place whenever people use something. Imagine the world passing a brick around from hand to hand. Over time, its edges soften until it's a smooth, rounded stone. An optimal shape has formed by being used and the brick has now “adapted” to an ideal shape for further travel among human hands. Usability is all about harnessing this evolutionary process.