California Zephyr example [was: Re: HTML WG needs complex tables with accessible markup]

Here's a mixed-news data-point.

My star example in 1996 was the timetable for the California Zephyr
train route on the U.S. Amtrak service.

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2007May/att-0083/czsched.htm

As it turns out, this train still runs and the timetable layout is
still in the "overlaid" category that defeats markup with 'scope'
alone.

http://tinyurl.com/6nfwg

BUT,

a) the timetable is now only available in PDF these days, so it's not an
example of accessible or inaccessible HTML.

AND

b) the page from which you download the print-image PDF also sports a
trip-planner interactive application. This is arguably equivalent
facilitation. I've been in the habit of telling people that such a
feature is an above-equal alternative.

Al

At 10:56 AM -0400 6 06 2007, Gregory J. Rosmaita wrote:
>aloha, loretta!
>
>i'm not gez, but my name does begin with a G, and i'm a member of the HTML
>WG...  right now, the focus is strictly on HTML Tables and the survival
>and strengthening of TABLE-related accessibility markup added to HTML4.01
>
>gregory.
>
>---- Loretta Guarino Reid <lorettaguarino@google.com> wrote:
>>  Gez, is the HTML Working Group only interested in HTML examples? I've
>>  come across complex tables of this sort in PDF.
>>
>>  Loretta
>--
>"He who lives on Hope, dies farting."
>   -- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack
>--
>Gregory J. Rosmaita, unagi69@concentric.net
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