- From: Anne Pemberton <apembert@crosslink.net>
- Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 14:25:39 -0800
- To: <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
At 12:32 PM 11/18/00 -0000, Sean B. Palmer wrote: > Guideline 2. Separate content and structure from > presentation and explicitly define significant structural > or semantic distinctions in markup or in a data model. > - http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/ Sean, this is one of the guidelines that remains somewhat incomprehensible to me. I've been making web pages for many years, occasionally get paid for one, and have never yet created a "data model" to do one. I don't typically work from outlines but start working with the first word or graphic for a page... structure emerges from the needs of the content, not the other way around ... After the structure emerges from the content, the presentation may be altered to emphasize the structure. But despite the thought system involved, what is produced is a working web page ... delivering content, structure and presentation in one package. Moving presentation out of the basic package seems likely to increase probability for errors. As Kynn pointed out, this isn't a religious affiliation, and true believers are tempered by practical voices. CSS may be practical someday, but today isn't that day. Before CSS is widely supported, something better may come along .. Something that combines coding for "visual aides" however they are used, so that hearing readers know what's going on. At present, by using a graphic as a line instead of <hr>, I can apply an alt tag, a Title, and a long description. What more is offered in CSS? Anne Anne L. Pemberton http://www.pen.k12.va.us/Pav/Academy1 http://www.erols.com/stevepem/Homeschooling apembert@crosslink.net Enabling Support Foundation http://www.enabling.org
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