thanks Patrick.... that'll teach me for just stopping and going
"doh..what are they talking about!!"
Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
Jackie Reid wrote:
> The commission responded:
> "Wrapping in each cell can be met by using a simple device namely the
> inclusion of an invisible end-of-cell character which would indicate to
> a blind person the end of the text in each cell."
>
> They then say:
> It is not clear what the HREOC means by “an invisible end-of-cell
> character,” unless they refer to |</td>|.
>
> is this what they mean or what?
The answer follows straight after that (albeit a tad cryptic for the
uninitiated):
"A conversation with one of the expert witnesses previously called for
the trial clarifies that the initial (mistaken) assumption was that
tables would have to be linearized for Maguire to understand them,
which turned out not to be the case; standard accessible table HTML
would suffice."
Basically, they assumed that the table would linearise into a single,
unbroken stream - making it impossible to distinguish where the
content of one cell ended and the next one started - so they suggested
adding some marker that would be read out to denote the end of the
cell. But no, they later found out that that was unnecessary, as
assistive technology would (in one way or another) do that
automatically, provided the table was coded correctly.
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