- From: Anne Pemberton <apembert@crosslink.net>
- Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 19:17:20 -0800
- To: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>, <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Kynn, this pretty much sums up my first read of the guideline ... At 02:46 PM 11/20/00 -0800, Kynn Bartlett wrote: >That last one sounds dirty to me. I think I would get arrested if I >walked up to someone and asked to see his or her data model. Nice to know I'm not quite so unknowledgable as Sean makes me out to be! And that from a former nemesis! Kynn, the idea of a summary is good for CD, if the summary is a summary of the content, and not a summary of "the page" ... Some pages have a summary of either page or content that displays on a search engine ... it comes from the first paragraph on the page ... Others start off with the strangest remarks! A lot of pages I looked for last year on Famous Americans could have been useful if they'd 1) contained a picture of the dude/dudess, and 2) a simple summary of the person's importance ... One point about the web ... it is fluid .... you can't always count on a site you found last year being the same this year !!! Anne As I watched Sean's posturing, I tried to think of what is actually done now in CSS that isn't close to possible in the tools I use. In Publisher, it is possible to do some things that CSS does, like put text over a graphic (button). Unfortunately, now, Publisher reduces the whole thing, graphic and text, to a graphic when it converts to HTML. If Publisher could encode the text over the graphic in a way sinilar to CSS, would that serve? Or does CSS do more? Perhaps a solution is to further develop features in existing tools to duplicate what CSS has to do separately and without backwards compatability. Using a single tool, simple, for web developers to create good web pages. So that accessibility actually happens ... Word, Front Page and Publisher all have different features which makes one better than another for a variety of needs, including accessibility. No one of them does it all. And, I didn't have to know about SGML in order to use that knowledge! >--Kynn >-- >Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> >http://www.kynn.com/ > > 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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