- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charlesn@sunrise.srl.rmit.edu.au>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 13:05:43 +1000 (EST)
- To: Josh Krieger <jkrieger@cast.org>
- cc: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
This seems like a case where we should be using the REL attribute... Charles On Thu, 28 May 1998, Josh Krieger wrote: > > 5.3. For tables of text and numbers, provide an alternative page > > that presents the table information in a linear fashion > > I would like to suggest that the guidelines standardize a way of providing > alternative representations of tables so that an automatic > checker can find out whether or not such an alternative version > of the table exists. I suggest taking advantage of both the > TITLE attribute on a the A element and the ID of the TABLE. > For example, we might have something like: > > See the <A HREF="alternative.html" TITLE="table alternative id:tab10">alternative version of the following table</A> > > <TABLE ID="tab10" ...> > ... > </TABLE> > > While we currently recommend the LINK element for an entire > alternative page, but it seems to me it wouldn't hurt > to extend this scheme to other partial-page alternative > text. For example, > > >4.x All audio information has an associated transcript > > So that we might have something like: > > Bill Clinton's <A HREF="bc30.wav" ID="bc30">speech on Sox the cat</A> > (A HREF="bc30.txt" TITLE="audio alternative id:bc30">transcript</A>). > > Any takers? Anyone have another way of doing this in a well-defined > way? > > Josh Krieger > CAST > >
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