- From: Jason White <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU>
- Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 09:49:23 +1100 (AEDT)
- To: WAI Markup Guidelines <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
The effective use of cross-references can be a helpful tool in providing readers with a better understanding of the interrelations among guidelines. It would perhaps be advantageous to consider in which contexts cross-references could usefully be introduced. One further possibility, apart from those which Charles has mentioned, relates to mathematical notation etc. If the proposed guideline (A.6) is introduced which requires markup to be used to represent specialised notations (mathematics, music, chemistry, etc.), then a cross-reference should be made to the interim solution (namely images with appropriate markup notation as ALT text, as proposed in our earlier discussion), which would be a checkpoint under A.1. This is only an example and a careful search would probably reveal other areas in which cross-references would help to make explicit the the connections which may not be obvious to a reader. This should alleviate potential disputes as to whether particular concerns are taken into account in the document by facilitating a better over-all understanding. This does not, of course, reduce in any way the importance of scrutinising the document for whatever omissions may remain.
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