RE: colored tables

> The author could also use black-text-on-black-background to hide the 
>character on compliant GUI browsers.

Yes, very neat workaround.  Will forward to wcag.

Len


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>On Thursday, July 22, 1999 9:12 AM, Leonard R. Kasday [SMTP:kasday@acm.org] 
>wrote:
>> Hi wcag editor,
>>
>> Here's something that came up in an er-ig discussion.
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>> I've seen a couple of cases where people color table cells to show
>> information. See for example discussion at
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>> http://astro.temple.edu/~kasday/talks/pa-web/parktable.html
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>> Note this is a real data table, not merely use of table for layout.
>>
>> I didn't see a checkpoint that explicitly warned against this.  For
>> example, "don't use color alone" doesn't really apply if the fill color 
>is
>> black... people don't think of that as using color.
>>
>> The workaround for this is to put an image in the cell with alt text. 
> The
>> image could be a rectangle filling the cell or some other shape.  In 
>either
>> case there can be suitable alt text.
>>
>> Len
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Leonard R. Kasday, Ph.D.
Universal Design Engineer, Institute on Disabilities/UAP, and
Adjunct Professor, Electrical Engineering
Temple University

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Received on Thursday, 22 July 1999 11:31:54 UTC