- From: Charles F. Munat <charles@munat.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 15:22:32 -0800
- To: "Leonard R. Kasday" <kasday@acm.org>
- Cc: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Works fine in Mosaic 2.1 and Netscape 2.2. C. Munat -----Original Message----- From: w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Leonard R. Kasday Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 2:47 PM To: Steven McCaffrey; kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com Cc: sweetent@home.com; w3c-wai-ig@w3.org Subject: Re: How Much Of A Problem Are Tables Used for Design? It turns out you have more control over reading order than you might think, even when you layout text with tables. For example, you can have a menu bar on the left that actually gets read after text to the right if it. This assumes any browser, like lynx, that linearizes to read in the order of the HTML. For an example of this see http://astro.temple.edu/~kasday/wai/tableorder2.html So even without CSS layout, it can be reasonable to ask a web page author to pay attention to reading order. (Aside from the possibility that the trick shown in the above web page may not render well in early browsers. I only tested it in NN and MSIE 4 and Opera 3.5) Plus there are other techniques like having links or keys (as in Scott's demo) to jump you to specific spots. Len ------- 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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