- From: Jon Gunderson <jongund@staff.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 12:17:35 -0500
- To: <davadam@well.com>, "'WAI'" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Responses to david are marked using JRG: >To me, the use of tables for layout is not going to go away in HTML; >therefore, a more profitable direction would be to fix the relatively few >number of screen readers, rather than the nigh-unto-infinite number of web >pages. > >Thanks to Charles McCathieNevile for the excellent example of the problem >with how screen readers deal with HTML content. Why (he asked, getting >ready to duck) are screen readers so stupid? JRG: Screen readers are designed to be a general purpose access to where WWW browsing is only one of several tpes of software. Some browsers are getting smarter. Henter-Joyce JAWS program manipulates the DOM of explorer 3.0 to relayour pages so there more accessible. A table of contents in a >left-most table cell is tagged as an identifiable HTML block. Why haven't >any of the screen readers been written to deal with HTML blocks, instead of >just reading across and down? JRG: I think we could ask authors to mark what the tables are being used so that the rendering of the document could take into account the intedned use of the table. > > >aloha >--dae > > > > > >david adam edelstein >davadam@well.com >http://www.well.com/~davadam > >"Most real growth involves an element of pain, certainly of confusion. >If you're comfortable with what you're doing, you've been there before." >--Jerry Uelsmann > Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign 1207 S. Oak Street Champaign, IL 61820 Voice: 217-244-5870 Fax: 217-333-0248 E-mail: jongund@uiuc.edu WWW: http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~jongund http://www.als.uiuc.edu/InfoTechAccess
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