- From: William Loughborough <love26@gorge.net>
- Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 07:11:49 -0800
- To: joeclark@qube.seeto.com (Joe Clark) (by way of Wendy A Chisholm <wendy@w3.org>), w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
At 09:41 AM 3/7/01 -0500, Joe Clark wrote:
>clearly tells us not to use access tags in layout tables
This is similar to the restriction on using <hn> element for formatting
purposes rather than as "headers" in the sense used by ToC generators. By
making it a convenient means for larger-font dividers the implementations
of the element drove a (thankfully fairly small) 'nother nail in the
accessibility coffin.
Some tools check HTML source for apparent abuse of such elements so there's
some hope of automating the repair of this transgression.
Incidentally because 5.4 says "If a table is used for layout..." it puts
the lie to the notion that the guidelines preclude the use of tables for
layout!
--
Love.
ACCESSIBILITY IS RIGHT - NOT PRIVILEGE
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