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RE: Frames and Compatibility (was: web admin duties)
Subject:RE: Frames and Compatibility (was: web admin duties) From:Tom Murrell <trmurrell -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 19 Jan 2001 10:30:13 -0800 (PST)
--- bryan -dot- westbrook -at- amd -dot- com wrote:
> If you're concerned with ADA issues, you should read what the Bobby
> site has to say about tables.
>
> For example, readers for the blind usually go strictly from left to
> right so any table that is oriented for vertical reading will not be
> correctly interpreted.
Bryan, I'm not sure I understand wht you mean by a table oriented for
vertical reading. First, do you refer to a layout table, where the
developer is trying to control positioning on the page, or a data
table? They really are two different things, though W3C would like to
have people stop using tables for layout (but they do it themselves
<g>) and use CSS2 for text positioning. But browsers currently don't
support that, donchaknow.
I use either a two or three column/cell layout table. This approach
seems to render one atop the other in a text browser such as Amaya
provides, and that works for me as what is in each cell/column is
independent of what is in the next, or previous, one. Within the
cell/column, however, you do read top down, which I would describe as
reading vertically. But that can't be what you mean, can it?
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