- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 19:22:06 -0400 (EDT)
- To: "Leonard R. Kasday" <kasday@acm.org>
- cc: WAI ER group <w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org>, WAI GL <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
I think this should be asked of WCAG - so I have forwarded it to them and request it be discussed at the earliest possible opportunity on the agenda. Charles McCN On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Leonard R. Kasday wrote: A number of guidelines require workarounds "until user agents" do certain things. For example ' in http://www.w3.org/WAI/Resources/WAI-UA-Support it says Checkpoint 10.3 Checkpoint text: Until user agents (including assistive technologies) render side-by-side text correctly, provide a linear text alternative (on the current page or some other) for all tables that lay out text in parallel, word-wrapped columns. Status: IBM's Home Page Reader in combination with Netscape Navigator (4.5, Win98) and Henter Joyce's JAWS in combination with Microsoft Internet Explorer (4.0 and higher, Win98) are instances of a browser and assistive technology combination that can linearize a table. Opera (3.6, Win98) allows a user to linearize tables. Lynx (2.81, Unix) renders tables by row. Silas' Gateway and other tools being developed by the ER Working Group [ER-IG] allow users to linearize tables. However, only Microsoft Internet Explorer (4.0 and higher, Win98) with HelpDB and WWW with EmacsSpeak allow a user to navigate within and between the cells of a table. Does this mean that we no longer need at linear text alternative? Len -- Leonard R. Kasday, Ph.D. Institute on Disabilities/UAP and Dept. of Electrical Engineering at Temple University (215) 204-2247 (voice) (800) 750-7428 (TTY) http://astro.temple.edu/~kasday mailto:kasday@acm.org Chair, W3C Web Accessibility Initiative Evaluation and Repair Tools Group http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/ 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, Australia September - November 2000: W3C INRIA, 2004 Route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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