- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 15:54:34 -0500 (EST)
- To: Jon Gunderson <jongund@staff.uiuc.edu>
- cc: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
In general I think the checkpoints are good. Specific comments interspersed - see CMN:: and JG:: On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Jon Gunderson wrote: The following checkpoints are based on last weeks telecon discusion on tables conformance for AT. Checkpoint 5.5.a [Priority 1] Allow users to navigate between cells of a table CMN:: Does this mean horizontally and vertically? If not then it is made redundant by 4.3.a (following) JG:: Checkpoint 4.3.a [Priority 1] Allow the user to view one table cell at a time Checkpoint 4.3.b [Priority 1] Allow the user to view header information associated with a cell Checkpoint 4.3.c [Priority 2] Allow the user to view assumed headers associated with a cell This checkpoint would use the HTML 4.0 header algorithm and other techniques to determine assumed headers for a table cell. This can be used to repair poorly authored pages. CMN:: I would lower the priority of this to 3 and raise the priority of 4.3.h (below) to priority 2 JG:: Checkpoint 4.3.d [Priority 2] Allow the user to view the CAPTION element of a table Checkpoint 4.3.e [Priority 2] Allow the user to view the SUMMARY attribute of a table CMN:: These two could be P1 - I am not sure. JG:: Checkpoint 4.3.f [Priority 2 or 3] Allow the user to view element structural information about a table This checkpoint provides information on the dimensions of the table and other information like does the table have any header elements defined or that it is an embedded table. Checkpoint 4.3.g [Priority 2 or 3] Allow the user to view element structural information associated with a cell This checkpoint provides the row and column information for a table cell. This maybe be useful as a last resort repair strategy for poorly authored tables. Checkpoint 4.3.h [Priority 3] Allow the user to view one table row or column at a time This checkpoint is a convience function for access an entire row or column of information. CMN:: It is more than that. It may in fact be a possible technique (or fragment) for 5.5.a, but it allows the user to easily use the structure of the table to provide the context which is implicit in a visual rendering. Charles
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