- From: Chris O'Kennon <chris@vipnet.org>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 09:11:08 -0400
- To: "'Charles McCathieNevile'" <charles@w3.org>, WAI GL <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
This has been a rather long thread, so I apologize for missing the beginning. But what level of conformance is this aspect being considered? I can see - on the development side - that this will be one that will be impractical in many cases. If an application is designed to dynamically generate a table of data, retrofitting that application to create a graphic on-the-fly would be so costly as to be prohibitive. Chris O'Kennon Commonwealth of Virginia Webmaster/ VIPNet Portal Architect www.myvirginia.org ______________________________________ "When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other." -----Original Message----- From: Charles McCathieNevile [mailto:charles@w3.org] Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 8:44 AM To: WAI GL Subject: illustrating content - tables of figures One area where it is helpful to illustrate, and where it is technically trivially easy in many cases is tables of numeric data. Programs to transform these into graphic representations have been available as mass-market software at least since 1990. I would suggest that one criteria is that all tables of numeric data are accompanied by a graphic representation. At the level of techniques, there is information I have read when I studied this stuff explaining different kinds of graphing techniques, and some results of testing the different ones for usability. If anyone has current knowledge and experience some references would be helpful. Charles McCN -- Charles McCathieNevile http://www.w3.org/People/Charles phone: +61 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI fax: +33 4 92 38 78 22 Location: 21 Mitchell street FOOTSCRAY Vic 3011, Australia (or W3C INRIA, Route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France)
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