- From: David Poehlman <poehlman@clark.net>
- Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 13:28:15 -0400
- To: wai-ig list <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
food for thought and discussion? we might want to include those in this thread who are not on the list in the discussions. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: FW: Re[2]: Database-driven Web pages Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 12:21:00 -0400 From: "Barrett, Don" <Don_Barrett@ed.gov> Reply-To: basr-l@trace.wisc.edu To: "'basr-l@trace.wisc.edu'" <basr-l@trace.wisc.edu> If anyone has any thoughts/comments regarding the below messages, please send them along. Don Barrett -----Original Message----- From: MARC FINK [mailto:MFINK@email.usps.gov] Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 11:35 AM To: Don_Barrett; pat.sheehan; Paul_Schafer; Bruce_Bailey; shelia_hamblin; Michele_Zozom; Elaine_Goheen; Ron_Luycx Cc: Gerald_Malitz Subject: Re[2]: Database-driven Web pages Thanks, Don, I'm especially interested in what approaches folks have used to solve the following challenges: 1. When generating a linearized table dynamically, what have you found to be a useful method for generating cell coordinates--in other words, how do you get the column and row headers associated with each cell member? Judging from Don's comments below, perhaps it would be possible to pass a row header variable to each cell in addition to the column header. 2. What work-around has anyone found for dealing with session and variable ID's which are passed from one page to the next in Web applications like e-commerce shopping carts? As you know, these can be very long strings which convey little meaning to screen readers. These are sticky technical issues, but I see them as unavoidable considering how important database-driven Web content is. This is especially true when building pages that serve a search/query function to access large data/information resources in an efficient and meaningful way. Sincerely, Marc Fink ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: RE: Database-driven Web pages Author: Don_Barrett@ed.gov at INTERNET Date: 10/27/00 8:41 AM I am forwarding this message to a number of individuals on our team and on the Web Development team in the hopes that we can garner some additional interest/information on the problems raised in Mark's message below. If anyone has any thoughts on how we might proceed in framing this discussion, please share your thoughts. For example, here at Education, we have had a high degree of success with Cold Fusion, in that the resulting interface is HTML, and all query and script strings are handled without interfering with the interface. We did have a few applications which involved the use of complex tables which needed column header identifiers to be read along with cell contents by the screen reader in order to make the table intelligible. This was handled by the contractor by modifying the template so that header information would be dynamically generated in the table in each cell. However, this solution is not documented as far as I know, and it should be so others facing the same problem can rely on this experience for an easy solution. Thoughts? Don -----Original Message----- From: MARC FINK [mailto:MFINK@email.usps.gov] Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 5:31 PM To: Don_Barrett; pat.sheehan Subject: Database-driven Web pages Dear Pat: I recently had the pleasure of meeting and talking with you at the IDEAS 2000 conference. (I work with the 508 team at the United States Postal Service.) I talked with you specifically about database-generated Web pages and other interactive pages such as form elements and links which are query strings. We agreed that these are areas of great concern but have not really been dealt with in-depth in the present guidelines. At the time I offered to pursue this issue further with you. Don Barrett, who works periodically here at Postal Headquarters, expressed a similar interest in studying this area in more detail. One goal of our mutual collaboration could be to share knowledge of different and successful approaches we know of--hopefully saving everyone time and money in the long run. Let me know what you think, and thank you for your time. Marc Fink Web Project Manager 508 Team USPS/LittonPRC 202 268-4716
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