- From: Jon Gunderson <jongund@illinois.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:58:32 -0600 (CST)
- To: "Jon Gunderson" <jongund@illinois.edu>, "Simon Pieters" <simonp@opera.com>, "Robert J Burns" <rob@robburns.com>
- Cc: "Steven Faulkner" <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>, "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>, "Janina Sajka" <janina@rednote.net>, "W3C WAI Protocols & Formats" <w3c-wai-pf@w3.org>, wai-liaison@w3.org
Another tool to explorer the iCITA Best Practice rules or to just explorer table makeup in general is the Firefox Accessibility Extension Beta Version: http://firefox.cita.uiuc.edu/#beta Direct link: http://firefox.cita.uiuc.edu/downloads/accessext1.5.3.beta.xpi If you use the "Style" -> "Tables" option you can explorer important accessibility information about tables including: 1. Dimensions 2. Summary content 3. Caption content 4. Best practices identification as a simplex, complex, data or navigation bar table. Jon ---- Original message ---- >Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:34:55 -0600 (CST) >From: Jon Gunderson <jongund@illinois.edu> >Subject: Re: Use and abuse of @summary >To: "Simon Pieters" <simonp@opera.com>, "Robert J Burns" <rob@robburns.com> >Cc: "Steven Faulkner" <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>, "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>, "Janina Sajka" <janina@rednote.net>, "W3C WAI Protocols Formats" <w3c-wai-pf@w3.org>, wai-liaison@w3.org > >Simon, > >Here is a list of tables we have been testing with: > >http://groups.google.com/group/faebeta/web/fae-test-pages > >The FAE testing results of the table tests: >http://groups.google.com/group/faebeta/web/fae-table-rules-test-results > >Jon > > > >---- Original message ---- >>Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:31:19 +0100 >>From: "Simon Pieters" <simonp@opera.com> >>Subject: Re: Use and abuse of @summary >>To: "Jon Gunderson" <jongund@illinois.edu>, "Robert J Burns" <rob@robburns.com> >>Cc: "Steven Faulkner" <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>, "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>, "Janina Sajka" <janina@rednote.net>, "W3C WAI Protocols Formats" <w3c-wai-pf@w3.org>, wai-liaison@w3.org >> >>On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:50:49 +0100, Jon Gunderson <jongund@illinois.edu> wrote: >> >>> Here is the iCITA best practices rules for accessible tables: >>> >>> http://html.cita.uiuc.edu/nav/dtable/dtable-rules.php >>> >>> The rules help to decide if a table is: >>> 1. Layout table >>> 2. Simple data table >>> 3. Complex data table >> >>Interesting -- now it would be useful to test the algorithm against actual tables. :-) >> >> >>> These rules have been implemented in the RC1 release of the Illinois >>> Functional Accessibility Evaluator: >>> >>> http://faetest.dres.uiuc.edu >> >>Has it been implemented in AT software? >> >>-- >>Simon Pieters >>Opera Software >> >> >> >Jon Gunderson, Ph.D. >Coordinator Information Technology Accessibility >Disability Resources and Educational Services > >Rehabilitation Education Center >Room 86 >1207 S. Oak Street >Champaign, Illinois 61821 > >Voice: (217) 244-5870 > >WWW: http://www.cita.uiuc.edu/ >WWW: https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/jongund/www/ > > Jon Gunderson, Ph.D. Coordinator Information Technology Accessibility Disability Resources and Educational Services Rehabilitation Education Center Room 86 1207 S. Oak Street Champaign, Illinois 61821 Voice: (217) 244-5870 WWW: http://www.cita.uiuc.edu/ WWW: https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/jongund/www/
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