- From: Leonard R. Kasday <kasday@acm.org>
- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 08:44:22 -0500
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
I think the major complaint Nick had about the Bobby page, text overlapping into a table, is actually an interesting table rendering bug in the major browsers. I made a test page [1] containing, visually speaking, preformatted text on the left and a table on the right. When you make the browser window narrow, the text overlaps the table, making both unreadable. By the way, to avoid red herrings, I didn't use tables for layout in this example. The table is a data table. This is an accessibility issue because the point at which they overap depends on font size. In other words you make the text larger, e.g. using the View > text size menu, it will cause the overlap. The page passes the w3 validator at the HTML 4/transitional level. This bug shows up in MISE 5, NN 4.73, and Opera 3.21 (gotta update my home computer...) Len [1] http://astro.temple.edu/~kasday/wai/tablebug/ -- Leonard R. Kasday, Ph.D. Institute on Disabilities/UAP and Dept. of Electrical Engineering at Temple University (215) 204-2247 (voice) (800) 750-7428 (TTY) http://astro.temple.edu/~kasday mailto:kasday@acm.org Chair, W3C Web Accessibility Initiative Evaluation and Repair Tools Group http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/ The WAVE web page accessibility evaluation assistant: http://www.temple.edu/inst_disabilities/piat/wave/
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