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Subject: Re: [docbook] Re: Tables, braille and other stuff
Jeff: That's far from it... accessibility guidelines call to make accomodations for everyone and doing universal design, not just what's more convenient for me at the time. I am not a disabled user but have come to appreciate the advantage of having a screen reader while i'm engaged in other activities. While a table may be the best way to represent a matrix, accessibility technology requires you to do a lot more work than you normally would, see http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/#gl-table-markup I'd also go one more on Dave's suggestion. Download a copy of IBM homepage reader or JAWS and have them read the generated page to you without any modification and see if that makes any difference... I can guarantee you it'll be a completely different experience than just looking at the pagee. Tables are usually the wors offenders :) If there's enough interested, I'd like to propose an accessibility evaluation of the Stylesheets and a set of guidelines/recomendations for stylesheets customizers Carlos -- Carlos E. Araya (Soon to be ex) WebCT Administrator - Trainer California Virtual Campus, Region 1 C/O De Anza College 21250 Stevens Creek Blvd. Cupertino, CA 95014 (p) 408 257 0482 (f) 408 255 4406 <icq> 5140783 <aim>carlosed1974 web (work): http://www.cvc1.org web (personal): http://silverwolf-net.net/ Sig: Computers are like airconditioners: They stop working properly if you open windows. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Beal" <jeff.beal@ansys.com> To: "'Dave Pawson'" <dpawson@nildram.co.uk>; "Steinar Bang" <sb@dod.no>; <docbook@lists.oasis-open.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 09:16 Subject: RE: [docbook] Re: Tables, braille and other stuff > > Why Steinar? > > Because you can visually scan n columns/rows quickly? > > Take care when you deliver material to those whose access methods > > are serial. > > They perhaps can't scan them so quickly. > > A table, one cell at a time, is pretty hard work, and tiring > > on the brain :-) > > regards DaveP > > > Pardon my ignorance for a moment, but do accessibility guidelines suggest > that we make our information less accessible for the "seeing" population in > order to make it more accessible for the "non-seeing" population? Or (as I > understand it) do they suggest methods and standards for adding information > to our existing data for alternate presentation? > > Jeff > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org > For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-help@lists.oasis-open.org > >
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