Re: Mailing list archives: feeback requested on proposedimprovements (2: view)

At 12:35 PM 2002-03-29 , Jon Gunderson wrote:
>Al,
>User agents right now don't skip maps (or allow navigation or summary 
>either), but we are
>including the question in our evaluations.  We are trying to get these 
>features implemented:
>
>1. Skip collection of related links
>2. Orient user to the set of MAP elements on a page (there could be more 
>than one set of navigation bars or related links)
>3. Navigate directly to a particular MAP link set
>
>Jon
>

Thank you for the information.  

The navbars in the working draft are already wrapped in MAP elements.  Do you believe the pages as presently marked up will meet the needs of those who implement per what you are asking?  Please provide details where we missed something.

Al

>
>At 09:58 AM 3/28/2002 -0500, Al Gilman wrote:
>>At 08:39 AM 2002-03-28 , Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
>> >
>> >I will take an action to raise this again as an issue in WCAG.
>> >
>>
>>Please don't do that.  I am checking with the leadership of the WCAG on 
>>this point.
>>See the WAI CG archives.
>>
>>Ian did a good job of recapping the rationale.
>>
>>What I would like you to do, however, is give us an update on user agent 
>>implementation on skipping MAP.  With links to backups.
>>
>>Al
>>
>> >Chaals
>> >
>> >On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Ian B. Jacobs wrote:
>> >
>> >  Dominique Hazaël-Massieux wrote:
>> >
>> >  > le jeu 28-03-2002 à 10:42, Steven Pemberton a écrit :
>> >  >
>> >  >>>>I don't get the idea of putting the navbar in a <map> (client side 
>> image
>> >  >>>>map). What's the point? What do you gain?
>> >  >>>>
>> >  >>>This is for accessibility reason. See:
>> >  >>>http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/#group-bypass
>> >  >>>
>> >  >>Ooh I hadn't spotted this before. This is weird tag abuse. Can anyone
>> >  >>explain to me what the accessibility advantages are of using a 
>> client-side
>> >  >>image map not as a client-side image map, but as a container for links?
>> >  >>
>> >  >>Why is it better than using a <p> or a <div>?
>> >  >>
>> >  >
>> >  > Good question. Maybe Al will be able to give more input on that.
>> >  > Interestingly, it looks like this usage of <map> is not considered good
>> >  > anymore:
>> >  > http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wai-gl-tech-issues.html#group-bypass
>> >  > "A further conclusion is that we do not want to recommend the MAP 
>> element
>> >  > as a way to group links since it is a non-standard use of the element."
>> >
>> >
>> >  That's unfortunate that the WCAG WG concluded that after:
>> >
>> >    1) That proposal being integrated into HTML 4.01, and
>> >    2) A fair amount of time spent in the UAWG trying to meet the need
>> >      of recognizing MAP as navigation markup.
>> >
>> >  I have not been party to the discussion in the WCAG WG, but I'm
>> >  a little disappointed to hear that now they're unrecommending what
>> >  is not *yet* standard practice but might have been.
>> >
>> >    _ Ian
>> >
>> >
>> >
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>
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