- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 10:44:30 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Jon Gunderson <jongund@staff.uiuc.edu>
- cc: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>, po@trace.wisc.edu, "GL - WAI Guidelines WG (E-mail)" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
No, this is not exactly true. The element you are thinking of is MAP - the same element that is used to describe the navigation part of client side image maps. MENU is deprecated in favour of the list elements. cheers Charles On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Jon Gunderson wrote: > >[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/1999AprJun/0150.html > >> Six areas they have identified and have as points on their list (which >> aren't necessarily reflected in the current UA Guidelines are: >> #03: Should user agents be able to recognize markup for navigation bars > >Our current discussion in UAGL on this topic is about using schemas >as the proper way to identify semantic units such as navigation bars. JRG: My understanding is that the MENU element is also recommended in the Web Content Guidelines for marking up navigation bars. Is this true? Jon 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 --Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org phone: +1 617 258 0992 http://www.w3.org/People/Charles W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI MIT/LCS - 545 Technology sq., Cambridge MA, 02139, USA
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