- From: Pawson, David <DPawson@rnib.org.uk>
- Date: Fri, 7 Nov 1997 13:02:57 -0000
- To: w3c-wai-hc@w3.org
> The person reading a text in Braille also wants to > know what page the same text is on in the print version. This is very hard and conflicts with other accessibility concerns. True to its tradition, HTML doesn't know about pages. CSS2 has the notion of pages [1]. For example, an element can request or refuse a page break before, after or inside it. But, since HTML documents should scale onto the widest range of output media possible (e.g. US letter paper and A4 paper), CSS cannot guarantee that a certain element ends up on a certain page. Also, unavailability of fonts, different hyphenation rules, a users's request for large font sizes etc. make this impossible. If I recall the page numbering discussion came up a while back. I objected at first (being print impregnated), but came to accept the common sense of the view expressed above. Page numbers support navigation, no more. Embossed braille is weak on navigation, lets leave it at that and seek to support navigational access 'on screen'. Still very much in support of headers, but for more useful 'stuff' than page numbers. DaveP From: Dave Pawson. RNIB(UK) e-mail dpawson@rnib.org.uk
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