- From: Al Gilman <asgilman@access.digex.net>
- Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 14:38:58 -0400 (EDT)
- To: w3c-wai-hc@w3.org (HC team)
This may be overkill at this point, but here is a pipe dream of how an authoring tool could automate the capture of suitable-for-audio annotation of a table. Author composes table in WYSWYG fashion [actual database reports are different]. Author turns on balloon help. Author picks first [nominally upper left] cell in a range that she considers similar. Checks what the balloon reads. It contains several correct cell-borrowings and one bad one. The data from the cells are integrated in a terminally klunky sentence. Author sets help balloon in edit mode. Cuts link to inappropriate cell from balloon text. Selects correct cell to fill that relationship in sentence and pastes cell reference in that place in sentence. With the set of borrowed facts now OK, the author edits the text around the cell-links to make the sentence fluent and colloquial for the domain of the table. When satisfied with this sentence, commits [closes] edit-balloon dialog. Author selects the rectangle of cells that should have similar readout, activates auto-propagate of pattern. Author checks lower-right cell in block. One of the inter-cell links is getting propagated wrong, so that this reference is wrong. Author selects fix-auto-propagate under edit and the tool gives an edit dialog for the lower-right cell. Author edits link from balloon text to source cell as before. Tool detects correct propagate pattern, adjusts all cells except first and last in block. Author checks lower left cell in block, and upper right cell in block. These now generate readouts per author desires. Move on to next block of cells... -- Al
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