RE: UA ISSUE OF THE WEEK: Table element access

Rather than think in terms of font size, it might make more sense to think
in terms of viewport bandwidth.  By which I mean, if the display shows less
than 40 characters per line, and fewer than 12 lines on the screen at a
time.

The advantage of thinking in these terms is that we address the real issue,
which is the fact that the browser can render only a small amount of
information at a time.  This would include screen magnified browsers, large
font sizes, and small screen sizes also.

I recognize that modern displays can't be thought of in terms of 80x24
character grids, but that does convey, in a general way, the issues of
limited window size.

Denis Anson, MS, OTR
Assistant Professor
Computer Access Specialist
College Misericordia
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Dallas, PA 18612

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-----Original Message-----
From: w3c-wai-ua-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-ua-request@w3.org]On
Behalf Of Charles McCathieNevile
Sent: Monday, January 11, 1999 6:09 PM
To: Charles (Chuck) Oppermann
Cc: WAI UA group
Subject: RE: UA ISSUE OF THE WEEK: Table element access


On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Charles (Chuck) Oppermann wrote:

  I simply don't understand the proposal.  It appears that all the
  Checkpoints, from 1 through 8 only apply to specialized browsers and not
  mainstream browsers such as Internet Explorer.  Am I understanding this
  correctly?

CMN:: Not quite. The way I read Magnified screen means that a large font
size (say 48+ point, although there is no good way of defining this) on a
'mainstream browser' would qualify - in which case they all apply to IE,
unless you make it restrict available font sizes. I don't think that is
the intended result. Hence my 'counter proposal' (I know it is long, but I
did think quite hard before I wrote it, so I hope people will actually
read to the end. Or even read the proposal itself, which is quite short,
and skip the preamble)

Charles McCN

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