- From: Jason White <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
- Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 14:42:26 +1000
- To: Web Content Guidelines <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
With apologies for my inability to attend today's meeting, here are my comments on the minutes: 1. If checkpoint 4.1 is rewritten as Avi, Lisa et al., have suggested, viz., "Use plain language", then it will not be possible to move what is currently in checkpoint 3.1 under checkpoint 4.1. 2. At today's meeting, the overlaps between 1.3 and 3.1 success criteria were addressed and I think excellent progress has been made. 3. The point referring to "reading order" was not intended simply to address tables, much less tables used for layout; it is a much more general claim that (within a single document/user interface) it must be possible to create a reasonable, linear reading order. Everything from columnized text (with no markup to disambiguate it) to tables (again without proper markup) to the use of graphical layout operators, for example in SVG, to control the presentation and arrangement of text (again without adequate markup) should fail to satisfy this point. The underlying claim is that there ought to exist sufficient semantics (in markup/data model as per checkpoint 1.3) to enable a reading order to be constructed. Thus the requirement belongs as a success criterion under 1.3. In general I think the meeting was excellent, judging by the minutes.
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