[NFBCS] Css, Building It From the Ground Up

[Peter Donahue]

Hello Greg and everyone,

	I'll second what you said about CSS. You can make lots of changes
site-wide by linking all of its pages to a CSS. These days CSS lay-outs are
preferred over table lay-outs. Sites built and layed out using a CSS tend to
be more screen reader-friendly.

	Over the years I've tried various Website creation tools and CMS
systems and always came back to building Websites from the ground up. A
great jumping off point is creating a basic template you will use to create
all of your site's pages. Investing in learning HTML5, CSS, and Javascript
allow you to creat awesome Websites that are accessible for both the
developer and for site visitors. If you know how the site was created you
know how to maintain it using assistive technology. 
-----Original Message-----
From: NFBCS [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Greg Kearney via
NFBCS
Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2019 10:42 AM
To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
Cc: Greg Kearney
Subject: Re: [NFBCS] Low-cost Accessible Website

CSS, short for Cascading Style Sheets, is a method of controlling the visual
appearance of a web page while leaving the structure of the page untouched.

For example with CSS you can control the size, font, colour, alignment and
so on of an H1 heading tag without having to call any HTML to the tag
itself.

>From an accessibility point of view this is good as screen readers want to
interact with the page structure and not visual appearance. For page
maintenance it is handy because you can make changes page or even site wide
by only changing the CSS in one place and then those changes will propagate
across the site with no further editing.

CSS can be included in any HTML tag using the style attribute, it can be
placed at the head of the HTML file in a style tag or it can be included
into a HTML file from a separate CSS document. It is possible to have
different CSS stylesheets for different situations such as for computer,
mobile devices, when a page is printed and even in theory for users of
assistive technology.

You should use CSS to control the visual layout of the page.

Greg Kearney  

> On Aug 17, 2019, at 12:23 AM, Leslie Fairall via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
wrote:
> 
> Can you explain what CSS is?


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