Re: Gap analysis tables - experiment

Sorry, that was a bit garbled due to my confusing the next table.

+1 to the DT layout. It looks great on my mobile. Very nice work and I
assume easier screen reader access too?

I also get h scrolling with just whitespace. That's almost certainly due to
the large tables further down the page.

Steve Lee
Sent from my mobile device Please excuse typing errors

On Thu, 4 Oct 2018, 23:56 Alastair Campbell, <acampbell@nomensa.com> wrote:

> Hi Lisa,
>
> We discussed the large tables in the gap-analysis, and I've had a little
> experiment with a new structure.
>
> Before going too far with this, I thought I'd try it one table 1 in a
> separate branch, and see if it's going in the right direction:
>
> https://rawgit.com/w3c/coga/gap-analysis-table-change/gap-analysis/index.html#secure-web-authentication
>
> The first bit is the same, the changes are just for the table:
>
>   *   Each row becomes a heading (4);
>   *   The user-need goes into a blockquote, which adds a line on the left
> (and it is written first person, so sounds like a quote);
>   *   The other cells are put into a definition list structure, so a <dt>
> tags for techniques, OS etc.
>   *   The techniques / points in the data cells going into <dd> items.
>
> For people not familiar with DL/DT/DD structures, it is basically a
> flexible list of stuff with multiple items per "term". Hopefully you can
> see that in the doc.
>
> I think it works to keep the information on the same screen (I get
> horizontal scrolling), do others think it works as a better format than the
> tables?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> -Alastair
>
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