- From: William Loughborough <love26@gorge.net>
- Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 05:26:55 -0800
- To: Anne Pemberton <apembert@crosslink.net>, <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
- Cc: <wapdesign@wapdesign.org.uk>
At 06:33 AM 11/17/00 -0800, Anne Pemberton wrote:
>why would
>you want to avoid the use of an element that aids in visual understanding?
The intention is not to avoid its use but to elucidate its implications. It
is not *just a line* because it is a skimming target for sighted users and
its function as a place-marker/divider is what's being covered. The notion
of revealing structural elements is counter-intuitive for blindless people
because it's so "obvious" why there's a bit of red that shows something is
a new item, or whatever. Structure, like grammar, is almost hard-wired in
the brain so making it clear *to* the author and *for* the reader is what
the aim is. It's a fairly monumental task and is at the root of the
separation of content/structure/presentation dicta.
--
Love.
ACCESSIBILITY IS RIGHT - NOT PRIVILEGE
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