However, some of the basic design elements that are used by almost all wordpress templates, such as fixed widths, table-based layout, using headings and inline code for visual styles all make wordpress sites (and all other community, open source blogs) sadly very inaccessible.   Many designers learned their trade long before the blogs and social networking exploded onto the scene and simply don’t realsie how old style (and by old we mean 1990’s!) coding causes problems for both newer browsers, hardware and for disabled people.