Objectives
- A CSS Toolkit: What tools will we use?
- Web Standards: A high level view
- Why do we use CSS?
- Web standards, CSS and semantics
- Creating a CSS based layout
- CSS Layout best practices
- Semantic markup and validation.
- CSS precautions and how current screen readers “see” content.
- Default browser styles.
- Accessible font sizes.
- Basic block-level styling.
- Background images and why not to include content in background images.
- Styling navigation lists.
- Margins versus padding, basic box model properties. Internet Explorer’s
box model flaw (See Eric Meyer’s diagrams on the correct box model and
the IE5 box model, also Rendering Mode).
- Floated content, scalable widths and margins.
- Accessible styling of form elements.
