RE: New Failure Techniques for SC 1.3.1

Becky - you wrote
I don't understand what is meant by the general failure, "Failure due to
ambiguous hierarchical lists in simple text content.". Can someone else work
on that one or provide more details?

I think this refers to a hierarchical list where only indents are used to
show hierarchy.

If outline numbering is used it is not ambiguous. 
e.g. 
1
1.1
1.1.1
2

Or 

I.
A.
i. 
ii.
B
II

or some such
 
Gregg

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Gregg C Vanderheiden Ph.D. 
Professor - Ind. Engr. & BioMed Engr.
Director - Trace R & D Center 
University of Wisconsin-Madison 


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[mailto:public-wcag-teamb-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Becky Gibson
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 2:56 PM
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Subject: New Failure Techniques for SC 1.3.1


I have been trying to complete the failure tests for Guideline 1.3.  I 
have completed all but one of the failures for SC 1.3.1 [1].  I would 
appreciate it if folks could review the following three failure 
techniques. 

General Failures
Failure due to using space characters to format tables in simple text 
content. [2]
Failure due to using space characters to create multiple columns in simple 
text content [3] 

HTML failures
Failure due to using th elements, and summary attributes in layout tables 
[4] 

I don't understand what is meant by the general failure, "Failure due to 
ambiguous hierarchical lists in simple text content.". Can someone else 
work on that one or provide more details?

thanks,
-becky

[1] 
http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=How_to_Meet_Success_Criterio
n_1.3.1
[2] 
http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=Failure_due_to_using_space_c
haracters_to_format_tables_in_simple_text_content
[3] 
http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=Failure_due_to_using_space_c
haracters_to_create_multiple_columns_in_simple_text_content
[4] 
http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=Failure_due_to_using_th_elem
ents%2C_and_summary_attributes_in_layout_tables

Becky Gibson
Web Accessibility Architect
                                                       
IBM Emerging Internet Technologies
5 Technology Park Drive
Westford, MA 01886
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Email: gibsonb@us.ibm.com

Received on Monday, 6 February 2006 06:31:24 UTC