Queensland - based Web design company - Alfresco Design is drawing the attention of Web industry by announcing a new web functionality standard. In conjunction with this, the company reports the successful usage of a revolutionary solution that will incredibly facilitate the access of blind and visually impaired people to the endless Internet environment. The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) technology will have a large contribution to the optimization of site management and Web site accessibility.
The new groundbreaking CSS technology comes to threaten the application of the traditional method of building web sites through the use of tables. The problem with this method is that it emphasizes the priority of the page's appeal by requiring the tables to be laid out. This implies the complete incompatibility between tables and screen readers such as JAWS, which hampers visually impaired people in their efforts to access the desired web pages.
This problem has already met a solution. The usage of CSS will certainly encourage blind and visually impaired users to scan Web pages more easily by listening to the content of the page through screen readers. According to the proficient evaluation of Al Jury, Alfresco Design director, CSS allows the assignation of consistent styles on elements that make the site look a lot better, it is much easier and quicker to manage, and as an additional benefit - it loads a lot faster.
