- From: Ryan Jean <ryanj@disnetwork.org>
- Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:04:45 -0400
- To: "'Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis'" <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>
- Cc: "'David Woolley'" <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Here is my goal and achievement: I was able to take a page that has a table with multiple cells and extract only one cell so that only its content is viewable in the current window. I did this using JS and "document.write()". This has three advantages: it eliminates a pop-up, a duplicate page is not required, and it is printer friendly. However, the drawback from that is after the function runs, the content inside the cell is now not web accessible, via screen readers. It does still fall under the W3C guidelines because it is readable in table format, just not after. I wish there was a way we and ARIA could fix this bug. We know pop-ups are frowned upon in web accessibility and it is twice as much work for the webmaster to update each page if there is a duplicate involved. I did find a way around the bug by forcing the content in a textarea, but that takes away all the images and HTML coding. Sincerely, Ryan Jean Assistant IT Specialist The Disability Network Flint, MI
Received on Wednesday, 20 August 2008 15:07:03 UTC