CSS/Accessibility Levels

June 3rd, 2006

Levels of CSS Knowledge:

  1. Know basic HTML and only use CSS for things you can’t do in HTML. Geocities/Google Pages/Freewebs users.
  2. Decided to try CSS once but found it too complicated and went back to tables. Thinks tables are better for BC with Netscape 4.0.
  3. Simple layouts in CSS
  4. Uses <div> to replicate tables. Positioning each psuedo-cell with a absolute position, or maybe using display: table-cell.

    "Each part of their page gets a div, often with a carefully crafted id (#toprightredline or even #r5_c7 with r standing for row and c for column), and then they position their divs with absolute positioning by the pixel."

  5. Use of CSS and knowledge of why it is better. Know why separating structure and design is good.
  6. Articles about new ways to use CSS, different CSS versions, etc.

I’d put myself at level 5 though again I’ve probably moved down 0.2 levels recently as I’ve used tables in 2 designs as I just didn’t have the time or patience to get the divs to work properly in IE6. 

Knowledge of Accessibility Levels:

  1. Knows they can get tooltips in Frontpage.
  2. "Is aware that spacer GIFs are tedious for screen-reader users to listen to and wouldn’t be caught dead subjecting a blind person to something as jejune as a filename. So alt="spacer!" it is."

    Enough said.

  3. Replaces tables with divs but the structure of the page is not fantastic. Skip to content links.
  4. Crap visual designer but makes pretty good structured code.
  5. Has had accessibility articles published, attends web conferences.
  6. Accessibility geek.

I’d put myself around level 3.8 here. I can make semi-decent looking sites but nothing fantastic. My code is kinda structured but I admit to having screwed around with the structure of the HTML to make the CSS a ton easier to write.

Anyone know of any other "level of blah" articles? PHP?

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One Response to “CSS/Accessibility Levels”

  1. # Andrewon 15 Mar 2007 at 1:06 pm

    hi there… using freewebs… tried css… to much of a hassle. wanting to know how to switch back to basic freeweb templates…. anyone know how?  

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