- From: Jon Gunderson <jongund@staff.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 09:05:09 -0600
- To: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>, WAI UA group <w3c-wai-ua@w3.org>
Borders around cells could be accomplished with a style sheet. Jon At 09:54 PM 3/12/99 -0500, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: >This is part of my promised response to Jon's proposals for subsetting >checkpoints by applicable browser type. > >It seems to me that checkpoint 5.4.1 (access to individual cells) needs to >be met for all User Agents which render tables (and all user agents should >render tables...) > >In the case of the garden variety browser, a simple example is the user >who has a magnified screen. (Or where the table is very large. This is a >problem I had yesterday, at a fairly standard font size.) > >In order to provide access to the content of a single cell, techniques >include allowing cells to take a focus (in the HTML event model, although >it has other problems, it is expected that any rendered element can take >the focus). A simpler technique which can be implemented by most graphic >browsers is to provide the user with the option of placing a border around >each cell. The up/down and left/right navigation that can be used to make >sense of a table (although it is not especially easy, with a large table, >it does work) can be provided by allowing the user to scroll the viewport >laft/right and up/down over a view. All the graphic browsers I have seen >(Arachne, DocZilla, HotJava, IE, Mosaic, Navigator, Opera) manage this >already. Navigation of the DOM tree would also enable identification of >individual cells, since they are nodes on the tree. > >Charles McCN > >--Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org >phone: +1 617 258 0992 http://www.w3.org/People/Charles >W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI >MIT/LCS - 545 Technology sq., Cambridge MA, 02139, USA > 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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