- From: Waddell, Cynthia <cynthia.waddell@ci.sj.ca.us>
- Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 12:57:35 -0700
- To: "'Kynn Bartlett'" <kynn@idyllmtn.com>, Michael W Baker <Michael.W.Baker@grc.nasa.gov>, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Thanks Kynn. I gave Mr. Baker a call and left a voice mail response. Cynthia D. Waddell --------------------------------------------------- Cynthia D. Waddell ADA Coordinator City Manager Department City of San Jose, CA USA 801 North First Street, Room 460 San Jose, CA 95110-1704 (408)277-4034 (408)971-0134 TTY (408)277-3885 FAX http://www.rit.edu/~easi/webcast/cynthia.htm http://www.icdri.org/cynthia_waddell.htm -----Original Message----- From: Kynn Bartlett [mailto:kynn@idyllmtn.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 11:07 AM To: Michael W Baker; w3c-wai-ig@w3.org Subject: Re: Tables At 1:54 PM -0400 5/10/00, Michael W Baker wrote: >I just read the San Jose design standards document. Item 10 states that >frames and tables should be avoided because screen readers can't decipher >them. How are you supposed to deal with page layout without tables? You probably should ask San Jose about their design standards document. The current WAI Web Content Accessibility Guidelines allow for the use of tables since stylesheets are not supported, but they caution you to make sure that your pages make sense if the tables are "linearized", which effectively means "if all your tables were converted to comments, does the page still make sense?" -- -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://www.kynn.com/
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