- From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Sun, 05 Apr 1998 15:50:51 -0400
- To: Jaap.van.Lelieveld@inter.nl.net (jaap van lelieveld)
- Cc: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
At 08:54 PM 05/04/98 +0100, jaap van lelieveld wrote: >On Wed, 25 Mar 1998 19:29:18 -0500 Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com> wrote: >> At 10:45 PM 25/03/98 +0100, jaap van lelieveld wrote: >> >Proposal for UA guidelines: >> > >> >A browser must show rulers and borders. >> >> Why? Rulers and borders are visual objects that by themselves have no >> meaning. An aural user does not gain anything from knowing that a table >> has borders (for example). > >When you look at a ruler as such it is _only a visual objet", but >a (good) designer adds a ruler for some reason Yes, and so the browser should give the reason for the rule rather than saying "There's a rule". In structural HTML, there are no rules, but there are reasons for rules. >When you look at a today's HTML page you see several types of >tables: >- Tables to force some layout. They normally do not have a border > since that would disturb the layout. >- numerical or textual tables. In these case the borders are > used to identify the diferent cells and/or rows/comuns. The cells are identified by the TD or TH elements. The borders are a visual presentation that is unimportant to the non-visual user since they do not express any meaning. Regards, -- Liam Quinn Web Design Group Enhanced Designs, Web Site Development http://www.htmlhelp.com/ http://enhanced-designs.com/
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