- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: 2000年4月13日 11:50:51 -0400 (EDT)
- To: William Loughborough <love26@gorge.net>
- cc: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0004131147240.15033-100000@tux.w3.org>
Some additional thoughts: There are several checkpoints that could be expressed collectively as mark up semantics according the specification. For example, HTML provides markup for various kind of semantic differences. Tables are one class of this (as well as being one possible presentation of 2-dimensional data). Chaals On 2000年4月12日, William Loughborough wrote: In terms of generalization I've always had trouble with the selection of one particular representational mode as a major focus: tables. A table is much like any means of presentation of underlying data, i.e. it is largely designed for ease of use by eyeballs. There is no singularity separating tables from bar charts, pie graphs, or any X-Y presentation of data that lends itself to that. In short the important consideration is that the content (raw data points) is separable from its presentation. I believe that the guidelines at their highest level of abstraction should deal with that and not with tables used as format vs. tables used as "tables". The latter are just a means of presenting underlying data to people of the retinal persuasion. Deal with all such issues in some technique/example space but the focus needs to be on maintaining access to the content, never mind what the author thinks is best for the reader. -- Love. ACCESSIBILITY IS RIGHT - NOT PRIVILEGE http://dicomp.pair.com -- Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org phone: +61 (0) 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI Location: I-cubed, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton VIC 3053 Postal: GPO Box 2476V, Melbourne 3001, Australia
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