- From: Jon Gunderson <jongund@staff.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 12:13:14 -0600
- To: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
The table navigation, rendering and orientation issue has been a particularly difficult issue for the UA group to resolve. To help resolve table issues I think we need to: 1. Define the media contexts that features are designed to enhance. 2. Checkpoints define the problem and not specific resolution of the issue. 3. Use the technique documents to suggest implementation techniques. During the face-to-face meeting last month a small group of people was given the task of coming up with some new ideas for the checkpoints related to tables. I would like to use their results and the results of discussions on the list and telecons as the basis of a proposal for discussion during the week and at the next teleconference on Wednesday. Please take the time to review this proposal and comment, or to submit your own proposals or counter proposals. Let's try to get the issues all on the table before the telecon next week. Checkpoint 1: Allow a user using an auditory, Braille and/or visually enlarged rendering of a document to view the information in a single table cell. Checkpoint 2: Provide a user using an auditory, Braille and/or visually enlarged rendering of a document commands to move the rendering focus between table cells. Checkpoint 3: Provide a user using an auditory, Braille and/or visually enlarged rendering of a document an option to have header information viewed as part of the table cell rendering. Checkpoint 4: Provide a user using an auditory, Braille and/or visually enlarged rendering of a document a command to view the header information associated with a table cell. Checkpoint 5: Provide a user using an auditory, Braille or visually enlarged rendering of a document a command to view the summary information of the current table. Checkpoint 6: Provide a user using an auditory, Braille or visually enlarged rendering of a document the ability to search for text in the current table. Checkpoint 7: Provide a user using an auditory, Braille or visually enlarged rendering of a document the ability to view the nesting relationships of nested tables. Checkpoint 8: Provide a user using an auditory, Braille or visually enlarged rendering of a document commands to move the rendering focus between nested tables. Checkpoints 1,2,3,4 and 5 may be also good to think about in relation to access to frames. Sorry this is a day late but my daughter was sick yesterday. Look forward to your comments, Jon Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign 1207 S. Oak Street Champaign, IL 61820 Voice: 217-244-5870 Fax: 217-333-0248 E-mail: jongund@uiuc.edu WWW: http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~jongund http://www.als.uiuc.edu/InfoTechAccess
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