- From: Al Gilman <asgilman@access.digex.net>
- Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 14:09:15 -0400 (EDT)
- To: w3c-wai-wg@w3.org
- Cc: wai.tables@sgmlopen.org, dev-access@world.std.com
To: dev-access@world.std.com From: Harvey Bingham <hbingham@ACM.org> Subject: Tables Accessibility I am collecting ideas for making tables more nearly accessible. This is an early task of the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) of the World Wide Web Consortium. I thank you for sharing your suggestions, experiences, and frustrations. The time is right for us to make positive contributions. Al, here: I don't know how relevant people feel this is to this list, in particular. If it is just a matter of people extracting information from tables, there may be better places to talk. On the other hand, I am currently excited about relational programming, and I think that tables are The Central Problem for developer access to the Future Web of indistinguishable programs and web pages. In fact, I think that interactive access will subsume most of what we know as programming. Giving people working access to what ARPA calls "the design web" is the whole ball game for dev-access. And I think that examining the problems with HTML 3.2 TABLEs reveals most of the questions we need to look at to win that ball game. Please accept this as my apology for why the list is about to receive a flurry of posts from me talking to a variety of issues raised by Harvey's post. -- Al Gilman
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