Re: Using frames advised?

Hi Eric (et al.) -

I endorse Peg's position--I loathe frames because of the inability to
give users a direct URL when they ask for a resource.

You're managing a department website: think how many times a student
affairs officer would have to walk a prospective student through the
website's nav system to get to forms or info. And how much more
effective it is to simply insert one URL into a pamphlet or a mass
email than a long, instructional paragraph--or leave it to the
audience to figure it out on their own.

In addition, my understanding is that the text readers cannot easily
leap from one frame to the primary-content-holding frame, while they
can move quickly through tables and table cells.

If this should help you to set up your table for this group of users,
I understand that these readers read one cell at a time, move from
left to right in a row, then down to the next row, and if they enter
a table inserted into a cell, they complete reading that table before
exiting that cell. There's also a shortcut to skip a cell.

- Marilyn

>Hi Eric,
>
>Personally, I abhor frames because their inability to give me a
>direct URL to the content I want. Professionally, I believe that
>there are some accessibility issues with them as well.
>
>FWIW, tables (or CSS-driven positioning) would be my choice....
>
>Peg
>
>
>Eric Fong said the following on 11/12/2004 10:53 AM:
>
>>Hi all:
>>
>>I'm planning to do a make-over of our site and would like to use
>>frames. However, I wasn't sure if this would be ok since (a long
>>while ago) browsers might have had a problem using frames. Today,
>>I'm not sure if it's a big deal anymore. I didn't know if they made
>>a difference for visually-impaired web surfers using text-browsers
>>but I'd like to know if anyone else used frames on their pages or
>>not? I could just stick with tables, but I like to convenience of
>>using frames. Opinions? Thanks.
>>
>>eric
>
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