- From: Jon Gunderson <jongund@staff.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 16:06:23 -0600
- To: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Cc: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
Response to CMN using JRG2: At 03:54 PM 2/2/99 -0500, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: >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) JRG2:One of the checkpoints is in a section 5.5 about navigation and the other is in section 4.3 about rendering information. > >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 > JRG2: Let's talk about it tommorrow. >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. JRG2: Let's talk about it tommorrow > >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. > JRG2: I think we need to talk about the navigation verses rendering checkpoints for consistency and funcationality. >Charles > 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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