- From: Gregg Vanderheiden <gv@trace.wisc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 09:26:57 -0500
- To: "'John M Slatin'" <john_slatin@austin.utexas.edu>, "'David MacDonald'" <befree@magma.ca>, <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <001b01c69150$f3fa0da0$6966d946@NC6000BAK>
Agree. Also talk about form controls Hmmmm So maybe something like: Definition of *Relationships*: "semantic associations between distinct chunks of content" Examples of chunks that have relationships include: a heading and the paragraph which follows it; a section title and the subsections that are within it; a control and its label; the boxes in an organization or flow chart; and table cells and their headers. Other comments? Gregg -- ------------------------------ Gregg C Vanderheiden Ph.D. Professor - Ind. Engr. & BioMed Engr. Director - Trace R & D Center University of Wisconsin-Madison The Player for my DSS sound file is at http://tinyurl.com/dho6b <http://tinyurl.com/cmfd9> _____ From: w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of John M Slatin Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 7:59 AM To: David MacDonald; w3c-wai-gl@w3.org Subject: RE: Definition of "Relationships" Thanks, David! It might be good to add a non-text example, e.g., "Associations between positions shown in an organizational chart" or "Associations beteween decision-points in a flow-chart" or something like that. John "Good design is accessible design." Dr. John M. Slatin, Director Accessibility Institute University of Texas at Austin FAC 248C 1 University Station G9600 Austin, TX 78712 ph 512-495-4288, fax 512-495-4524 email jslatin@mail.utexas.edu Web <http://www.ital.utexas.edu/> http://www.utexas.edu/research/accessibility -----Original Message----- From: w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of David MacDonald Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 6:14 PM To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org Subject: Definition of "Relationships" I had an action item with Katie to come up with a definition of Relationship. This is the proposal: Definition of *Relationships*: "Semantic associations between distinct chunks of content." Example 1: A heading is in relationship to the paragraph which follows it. Example 2: A section title is in relationship to the subsections that are within it. ----------------------- Discussion: "Semantic" is another way to say "meaningful" (as per the Wikipaedia definition of Semantic) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic So the definition could also be: "Meaningful associations between distinct chunks of content." But I think semantic works better. "chunks" could be replaced by "portions" or "sections" but I think "chunks" is very understandable. David MacDonald access empowers people... ...barriers disable them... www.eramp.com
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