Jedadiah Ashford
2/23/2008
Guideline 6. Ensure that pages featuring new technologies transform gracefully.

This guideline tells us that when older browsers cannot view updated content, such as java and flash, that we need to provide alternates. This also includes those that choose to turn off such content. They wouldn’t be able view the content either and wouldn’t be able to understand what is needed to be understood.
                First, if we use style sheets, we must make sure the page is viewable when style sheets are removed. This is important because sometime the things don’t work anyway. So a good example would be to make navigation items into lists. This would provide a lot of consistency throughout the pages.
                Also when dynamic content changes, we need to make sure we update the alternate content that comes with it. This is important because if we forget then the content could be misconstrued by those that cannot view the content.
                If we use content such as java we must make it viewable with the content turned off. If its not possible then we should provide another page that wouldn’t have the scripts enabled. This means that if we cannot make the page without the dynamic content then we should provide a link to a page with alternate information.
                If we make applets, we need to  make sure that there is a way that keyboards can provide input. Not just the mouse.
                We also need to make sure to add NOFRAMES at the end of each frameset. This is important to the screen readers that view the site.
Basically, we need to make sure we update our sites when changing to new content, and also to provide alternate pages for the same type of content just without the dynamics.