My first suggestion would be to get rid of all the !important - they will prevent accessibility in that if a person wanted to apply their own stylesheet, if my understanding of CSS is correct, !important will override the CSS rules of the user's stylesheet. Not all users who require pages be accessible are blind persons: some are colour blind and some just have poor vision. For both of these groups, you should allow them to apply their own stylesheets. Secondly, it appears that your approach (judging from the "remove defaults from elements" section in your stylesheet) is that you want absolute control over the look of your site. I think that you will find from this list that there are significant browser incompatibilities, bugs and misinterpretations for which numerous hacks and other work arounds have been devised - for absolute control, you would need to apply these hacks and of course, when the browser versions change, new hacks may need to be incorporated. I find this approach flawed in that you are trying to make web pages as rigid in design as printing to paper does which is not what the web was meant to be. Not all browsers support the universal selector * and therefore your first rule may not work. You state list-style doesn't work - perhaps that is a short form that I am not familiar with but instead, try list-style-type: disc. The best use of the body selector is for text color and page background - not all browsers support body as the top selector from which all other selectors are descendent - recommend you remove the font information from the body selector. HTH, Jules Original Message ----------------------- I'm quite interested in accessibility, so was amazed how hard (read impossible) it was to find an accessible user style sheet in a recent trawl through google. So I decided to have a crack at building my own. http://www.message.uk.com/css/betsie_v02.css I'd really appreciate it if people could give it a try and let me know any suggestions you have about how I can make it better. ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL-REMOVED]] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
