- From: Jon Gunderson <jongund@staff.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 14:32:32 -0500
- To: Charles McCathieNevile <charlesn@sunrise.srl.rmit.edu.au>, Josh Krieger <jkrieger@cast.org>
- Cc: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
I concur on using REL for marking link associations. There are at four items that REL can help with: dlink Mark a link as an image descriptor navbar Mark a link as part of a navbar lintable Mark a link as part of a linearized table transcript Mark a link as a transcript of a audio file Jon At 01:05 PM 6/12/98 +1000, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: >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 >> >> > Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign 1207 S. Oak Street Champaign, IL 61820 Voice: 217-244-5870 Fax: 217-333-0248 E-mail: jongund@uiuc.edu WWW: http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~jongund http://www.als.uiuc.edu/InfoTechAccess
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