- From: Jason White <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU>
- Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 09:48:10 +1000 (AEST)
- To: WAI HC Working Group <w3c-wai-hc@w3.org>
Having considered the various ideas which have been set forth during the past few weeks, it seems clear that little advance has been made upon the current HTML 4.0 draft. As I think all participants agree, AXIS and AXES should remain the basis of table accessibility. Al has indicated that it may be necessary to offer a mechanism for encoding the semantic relationships among data cells, which extends beyond the capabilities of the AXES attribute as currently defined. However, neither Al nor any other WG participant has yet produced a convincing example of how such coding would improve the audio rendering of a table, and thus the case for it has not been convincingly made out. It has also been suggested that CLASS values be reserved by which the author can indicate to a user agent whether a table is to be read, by default, across the rows or down the columns. I have also suggested that there is a need to define CSS properties that could control the reading order of a table. The details of this proposal can be decided upon later, since at present it is the HTML 4.0 specification with which we are primarily concerned.
Received on Thursday, 9 October 1997 19:48:31 UTC