- From: Jon Gunderson <jongund@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 16:38:39 -0500
- To: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>, w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
>Notes: > > - The term "important" is used in WCAG 1.0 [2]: > "Information in a document is important if understanding > that information is crucial to understanding the document." > This is not quite the meaning intended here, I believe. > As I have understood the WG's discussions, the goal is to be > able to reach "blocks" of content, not "information" that > is semantically important. We might assume that blocks of > content are generally semantically important, but that cannot > be guaranteed. For instance "DIV" may be used purely to > provide a green background to some content, and DIV is a block > element. I think we need to assume that blocks of content are considered by the author an important indication of some type of information, given the nature of how HTML is actually used in practice. Hopefully there will be better usage of markup to make it clearer what is really important. Jon Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology Chair, W3C WAI User Agent Working Group Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services College of Applied Life Studies 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 WWW: http://www.w3.org/wai/ua
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