- From: Leonard R. Kasday <kasday@acm.org>
- Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 09:01:22 -0500
- To: "Chris Ridpath" <chris.ridpath@utoronto.ca>, "WAI ER IG List" <w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org>
The description of "linearization" now reads When a table is 'linearized' the cells are usually read a row at a time, starting at the left and moving to the right. That's true, but I'd suggest adding something like: 'More specifically, "linearized" means reading the cells in the order in which they appear in the HTML source of the table'. This is equivalent to the Web Contents Accessibility Guidelines which defines a linearized table as "A table rendering process where the contents of the cells become a series of paragraphs (e.g., down the page) one after another. The paragraphs will occur in the same order as the cells are defined in the document source. (see http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WAI-WEBCONTENT-19990505/wai-pageauth.html#lineariz ed-table ) (I changed it to fit in with your wording in terms of cells, which I like). Len At 11:55 AM 12/21/99 -0500, Chris Ridpath wrote: >I performed a couple of tests with Lynx and it seems to read tables a row at >a time. If cells are merged, it still tries to do this. For example, if a >table is organized like a telephone keypad: >1,2,3 >4,5,6 >7,8,9 > >It will read 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 > >If the cells 1 and 4 are merged such as: > >m,2,3 >m,5,6 >7,8,9 >It will read m,2,3,5,6,7,8,9 ------- Leonard R. Kasday, Ph.D. Institute on Disabilities/UAP, and Department of Electrical Engineering Temple University 423 Ritter Annex, Philadelphia, PA 19122 kasday@acm.org http://astro.temple.edu/~kasday (215) 204-2247 (voice) (800) 750-7428 (TTY)
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