- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 01:02:24 -0400 (EDT)
- To: "Leonard R. Kasday" <kasday@acm.org>
- cc: w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org
This is where we meet the crossing point between Al's primary point - that one can navigate structurally any kind of structure, and that allows valuable treatment of complex sets of links - and mine - that for a collection of links which are for navigation and are related in their purpose, the appropriate HTML element to wrap around the block content is map. The map should go around the lot, to identify that this is just a collection of links (and it would be handy to ahve a title to help decide whether or not to skip it). The links should then be given whatever additional structure is going to be useful and helpful (nesting in lists, etc). just my 2 bits worth - cheers Charles McCN On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Leonard R. Kasday wrote: Al asked > When confronted with an arbitrarily deep nest (tree) of lists, do you mean > one should wrap > > 1) the innermost only > 2) the outermost only Ian replied: Yes, the outermost only is what I meant. That may not be sufficient for deep nested lists. But authors should probably avoid long lists of links anyway. Actually, it doesn't even work for one level of nesting... like I mentioned, map inside map is an HTML 4.01 syntax error. I think there are reasonable uses of nested links, e.g. subject headings and a few links under each heading, which is a very common idiom in portals. It's also arguably an accommodation for people with motor disabilities since it reduces mouse clicks. So I don't think we can ignore this limitation of map. Len -- 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) The WAVE web page accessibility evaluation assistant: http://www.temple.edu/inst_disabilities/piat/wave/ -- Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org phone: +61 (0) 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI Location: I-cubed, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton VIC 3053 Postal: GPO Box 2476V, Melbourne 3001, Australia
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