On 3/26/07, Nick Gleitzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have to incorporate a couple of simple flowcharts into the content of a site I'm building, I'm scratching my head about the best way to mark up this info in a semantically meaningful way.
Forgive me if I sound defeatist in this, but does anyone have any ideas as to how to best markup a film in a webpage in a semantically meaningful way? No-one? That's because it's outside the scope of published semantics (HTML schemas, etc.) for regular web publishing, surely. Flash would be a good way to produce accessible flowcharts (it lets you re-use symbols, etc., so there is a sense in which it has more inherent semantics than an image would) -- but it's not markup. That's a simple flowchart, too -- anything slightly more recursive and even the most horrifically nested [definition/ordered/unordered] list wouldn't suffice to represent its meaning. And, remember, it's one thing to create a technically-accurate solution, but quite another to produce an accessible & generally sensible (usable) one. If you must stick to the image/text paradigm, I don't think there are semantics to help your cause. My best effort suggestion at that point would be to have an image with extensive alt text/longdesc or a big fat caption under the flowchart, attempting to explain the process in plain english. Of course, the linguistic complexity of such an undertaking could well approach that of the potentially-messy semantics to which it is presented as an alternative... I have no answer. :P Josh -- Joshua Street http://josh.st/blog/ +61 (0) 425 808 469 ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
