Use HTML attributes, or CSS to set web page colors, but don't use both.
Added on Wednesday 8 Oct 2003
Here is a useful tip that I found while browsing the Accessibility Internet Rally 2003 Advanced Training website.
Use HTML attributes, or CSS to set web page colors, but don't use both.
For example, if you set the background colour in a table cell to black using an HTML attribute (e.g. bgcolor="#000000"), and used CSS to create contrasting white text (style ="color: #FFFFFF") - you will start getting emails from users who surf with style sheets off (or those using browser that don't support style sheets).
I haven't came across anyone yet who can read black text on a black background.
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