RE: [xsl] Is letting the browser transform XML to XHTML using XSLT a good choice?

[Didier PH Martin <martind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Jesper,

You said:
1) Google is based on the source code, and will ignore your webpages.


I reply:
Are you sure of that? How do you know? Is this confirmed by somebody else?
Don't get me wrong, I am just trying to find the truth, not attacking you.

You said:
2) Blind people's screen readers are based on the source code, and will not
be able to use your webpages.

I reply:
Which browser are you referring to? My limited experience on that subject,
at least what I know is that some readers like JAWS ( ref:
http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_products/software.asp )are filtering out
the text content of windows applications. Hence, if they are using usual web
browsers and Braille readers (like JAWS for example), they will have access
to the text included in the web page. For instance, to get access to the
"title" or the "alt" attributes of an <img> element. In other words, they
have access to the result of the transformation. If the result is HTML, then
blind people have access to the textual content if the browser is either
firefox/mozilla or IE with postprocessing to output on a Braille reader. So,
if people with this kind of disability you know, actually use a browser
accessing only the source of web pages, then do them a favor and tell them
about more modern tools like, for instance, the one I mentioned. Again, I am
not related to the company producing this reader and I encourage you to
google this key phrase: "braille reader for the web"

Best regards,
Didier PH Martin