- From: T. V. Raman <raman@Adobe.COM>
- Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 08:19:52 -0800
- To: "Pawson, David" <DPawson@rnib.org.uk>
- Cc: "'raman@Adobe.COM'" <raman@Adobe.COM>, Jason White <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU>, WAI HC Working Group <w3c-wai-hc@w3.org>
In my experience attempting short-term hacks typically results in the short-term hack hanging around far longer than the perpetrator intended -- and the XML to HTML4.0 projection if done in the name of accessibility will haunt us for a long time. Here are a few kluges that would emerge and hang around: Today's accessibility mechanisms in HTML4.0 and CSS1.x are not necessarily the best solutions and one needs to bend over backwards in providing access to certain kinds of structured information --the best example is tables. I shudder to think of the kind of hacks people would come up with in order to take a richly structured data record in XML to a "accessible HTML table". -- Best Regards, --raman Adobe Systems Tel: 1 (408) 536 3945 (W14-129) Advanced Technology Group Fax: 1 (408) 537 4042 (W14 129) 345 Park Avenue Email: raman@adobe.com San Jose , CA 95110 -2704 Email: raman@cs.cornell.edu http://labrador.corp.adobe.com/~raman/ (Adobe Intranet) http://cs.cornell.edu/home/raman/raman.html (Cornell) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer: The opinions expressed are my own and in no way should be taken as representative of my employer, Adobe Systems Inc. ____________________________________________________________
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