Re: gtk.org page width

[jcupitt gmail com]

On 30/01/2008, Michael L Torrie <torriem chem byu edu> wrote:
> jcupitt gmail com wrote:
> > Sorry to revive this again, but does anyone have a link to the
> > discussion of this? My google search is failing me.
> >
> > It seems strange to me that GTK goes to a lot of trouble to support
> > accessibility (atk and friends), but then has a homepage which breaks
> > W3C accessibility guidelines. Other than this issue I really like the
> > redesign, congrats to all who worked on it.
>
> Would not a fixed-width design meet accessibility guidelines and work on
> small, mobile screens if it used a fixed width based on ems instead of
> pixels?  Seems to me the time of using pixels for layouts is as obsolete

Yes, that's one of the solutions the W3C guidelines suggest:

http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/quickref/20071211/Overview.php#qr-visual-audio-contrast-visual-presentation

John