- From: Steven McCaffrey <smccaffr@MAIL.NYSED.GOV>
- Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 14:50:00 -0500
- To: <kasday@acm.org>, <paulb@cpd2.usu.edu>, <kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com>, <Robert.Neff@usmint.treas.gov>
- Cc: <298gpp@tay.ac.uk>, <W3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Len: Me too. Thanks. -Steve >>> "Leonard R. Kasday" <kasday@acm.org> 11/15/99 04:46PM >>> Steve, I'm glad we got to agreement now and I appreciate your helping me separate the technical specifics from the overall message that a discussion can convey. As for your question: > in the case where there are categories or titles of articles on the left and a description on the right. >Can the definition tag (<DL,DT,DD ) be used as in the library section of webable.com? Personally I think yes, that's a good way to format. What you're getting at, I believe, is that this format guarantees good reading order. If, instead, you had two columns, with the titles on the left, the titles could get wrapped to two or more, lines which would mess up reading order when your screenreader is reading physical lines. [Yes] Of course, this is for a situation where the titles categorize the listings. If on the other hand you had a completely separate list of links that were not categorizing the items then this obviously wouldn't apply Len p.s. This reminds me of another trick: when you're using tables for actual data, it can be useful to prevent the individual cells from wrapping, to maintain good reading order. This can be none with non-breaking spaces or the preformat tag. The drawback, of course, is that lines can get really long. Sometimes you can get away with having the short lines in the intial columns and the long one all the way on the right where wrapping does not harm. Provided you make sure that all text is alighned on the top. ------- Leonard R. Kasday, Ph.D. Institute on Disabilities/UAP, and Department of Electrical Engineering Temple University 423 Ritter Annex, Philadelphia, PA 19122 kasday@acm.org (215) 204-2247 (voice) (800) 750-7428 (TTY)
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