Viewable with any browser
Posted by sailor - 04/05/08 at 03:05 pmThis post is further to my previous post entitled Name ‘em and shame ‘em.
I would like to urge you all to pay a visit to the Viewable with any Browser Campaign. This site contains an easy guide on how to get your site viewable with any browser.
This site also encourages you to write a letter to the webmaster of any site that does not comply with the expected cross-browser capabilities. An example of such a letter would be:
Dear Webmaster,
I visited your site today and found it quite to my liking. It features a
lot of interesting stuff that should be accessible to a large Internet
audience.Unfortunately you have decided to make it “Best Viewed with Internet
Explorer” and/or “Best Viewed with Netscape Navigator”. In my opinion,
there is simply no reason for limiting your potential audience by
recommending/requiring the use of this/those browser/s.I suggest that you have a look at the “Best Viewed with Any Browser”
campaign at http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/ and try to make future
versions of your site compliant with the “Accessible Site Design”
guidelines published by them at
http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/abdesign.html.This way you can ensure that as many users as possible can take
advantage of the information you publish and enjoy your site.Thanks for your time,
Next time you find one of these sites, please consider a similar letter. This will go a long way towards ensuring that all sites are accessible to as many as possible.
If you have one of those ‘Best viewed with whatever’ signs on your site, please consider removing it. If you have to have such a sign rather have one that says ‘bring your own browser’.
There are certain ‘common-sense’ things you can do to ensure that your WordPress blog is as safe as possible.
Optimizing a website normally means getting everything to run at the fastest speed possible.
WordPress blogs are on average pretty slow loading. Fortunately there are a number of ways of speeding up a WordPress blog.
May 4th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
Are you classing sites that say “best viewed with $browser” and sites that say “*only viewable* with $browser” as the same thing?
May 4th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Most of them will tell you to use whatever works. Bloggers are an independent group. You will probably wind up making people angry, even though the letter is well written. Use at your own risk. LOL
May 5th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
I think the bottom line is that it is so easy to make a site compatible with most browsers, there is actually no excuse not too do it.
If we want our sites viewed just in IE or just in Firefox (as an example), imagine the uphill battle a visually impaired user is going to have if he/she wants to view the relevant site with a reader.