- From: Marti <marti47@mediaone.net>
- Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 04:36:43 -0400
- To: <love26@gorge.net>, "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Although Guuideline 5 is the only one that actaully directly references a 'technique' - table use is the point that I generally have most problem explaining to designers. Perhaps this needs to be clarified in Guideline 3 -(proper use of Markup) and 5 should deal with data presentation methods. Regrets for todays meeting. Marti > In terms of generalization I've always had trouble with the selection of > one particular representational mode as a major focus: tables. A table > is much like any means of presentation of underlying data, i.e. it is > largely designed for ease of use by eyeballs. There is no singularity > separating tables from bar charts, pie graphs, or any X-Y presentation > of data that lends itself to that. In short the important consideration > is that the content (raw data points) is separable from its > presentation. I believe that the guidelines at their highest level of > abstraction should deal with that and not with tables used as format vs. > tables used as "tables". The latter are just a means of presenting > underlying data to people of the retinal persuasion. Deal with all such > issues in some technique/example space but the focus needs to be on > maintaining access to the content, never mind what the author thinks is > best for the reader. > -- > Love. > ACCESSIBILITY IS RIGHT - NOT PRIVILEGE > http://dicomp.pair.com >
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