- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 17:54:28 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Wendy A Chisholm <chisholm@trace.wisc.edu>
- cc: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
I'd like to open this as an action item to look carefully at the HTML spec and see. It seems like a sensible, device-independent use of a structure to me, although it may be that the authors created an appropriate structure and then wrote about it in a way which made assumptions about the media devices with which it might be used. Charles McCN On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Wendy A Chisholm wrote: The GL group decided, after much discussion, not to use MAP as a way to group text links because it is a non-standard use of the MAP element. Please refer to the closed issue "grouping and bypassing links" at http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wai-gl-tech-issues.html#group-bypass. MAP is defined in the HTML4 spec to create client-side image maps - refer to http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/objects.html#edef-MAP. If the group would like to reopen this for discussion based on the UA action item, then we will. However, we need to think very clearly about the implications. it seems like a kludge to me. --wendy At 12:04 PM 7/9/99 , you wrote: >Hello, > >In the User Agent Working Group, we're talking what user agents can >do to help users navigate, including making navigation mechanisms >readily available. I am charged with an action to propose a technique >for the Web Content Techniques: use MAP to create navigation bars/group >related links. > >In the 5 May Techniques document, section 4.6.1 ("Grouping and >bypassing links") [1], an example shows <P class="nav">. Should >use the following markup instead? > ><MAP name="map1"> > <P>Navigate the site: > <A href=".." shape="rect" coords="..">Access Guide</a> | > <A href=".." shape="rect" coords="..">Go</A> | > <A href=".." shape="circle" coords="..">Search</A> | > <A href=".." shape="poly" coords="..">Top Ten</A> ></MAP> > >User agents may assume that the MAP element is used to create >navigation mechanisms (whether image maps or more accessible >ones with rich content). > > - Ian > >[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT-TECHS/#group-bypass > > >-- >Ian Jacobs (jacobs@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs >Tel/Fax: +1 212 684-1814 > --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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