- From: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 04:06:44 -0400
- To: jon gunderson <jongund@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- CC: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
jon gunderson wrote: > > In a recent telecon we talked about user agents supporting authors in > creating accessible content and that this should be part of our impact > matrix. This got me thinking about Opera's ingnore table markup feature. > This is useful to authors who are using tables for layout and are trying > to comply with checkpoint 5.3 in WGAG. I therefore propose to the group > to consider including the following checkpoint: > > 3.x Allow the user to configure the user agent to ignore markup that is > used for positioning.[Priority 3] > > Note: In HTML this is TR, TD, TH elements and CSS are positioning elements I don't think we should add such a checkpoint for at least two reasons: - I don't like requirements that amount to "don't conform to the spec" (i.e., by ignoring markup intentionally). - Users can already override CSS with user style sheets. - Ian -- Ian Jacobs (jacobs@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs Tel: +1 831 457-2842 Cell: +1 917 450-8783
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