- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charlesn@srl.rmit.EDU.AU>
- Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 18:21:17 +1100 (EST)
- To: Scott Luebking <phoenixl@netcom.com>
- cc: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
True table navigation would allow the user to find out where they are in the table, and would apply either the algorithm specified in HTML 4 or use the TABLE attributes and elements to provide additional context, such as headers which apply ot the current cell. It would then enable movement to the next cell in a row or column, or along an arbitrarily defined AXIS. This is the kind of implementation that would be ideal. A User Agent which allowed the user to navigate within a page by element, traversing or ascending/descending the document tree, would provide some of these functions. It would be possible to move across a row, cell by cell, or to move up and down rows. This provides no context information, and requires the user to remember where they are. This strikes me as the minimum acceptable native implementation, assuming that all the information is exposed for a 3rd party product which actually does the job properly. Charles McCathieNevile
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