Oliver_Henniges - 12:04 am on Jan 19, 2008 (gmt 0)

I have always been a friend of the "conservative" approach of webmasterworld, and I profited a lot from the accessibility of my website as far as search-engines are concerned. So flagged this thread, yes, a great and concise summary, encyclo.

But what about "personalized" websites? With systems like ajax coming up, we are faced with another qualitative level of dynamics in website design. All you summarized, surely holds true for a visitor or spider showing up for the FIRST time. But on future websites, a human visitor might THEN design this website according to his own preferences, his own logic of perceiving things most efficiently? And yes, I am talking about single, bookmarkable URIs here, not whole sites.

Accessibility for screen-readers, lynx, or people with eyes getting worse every day (like mine), is one side of the medal. But the quick and easy and self-determined presentation of the desired information for the young urban professional with three 19 inch monitors on his desktop is also a question of accessibility, isn't it? He seeks ACCESS to information.

For instance, why not let your visitor decide how much white space he needs between links?

[edited by: Oliver_Henniges at 12:05 am (utc) on Jan. 19, 2008]