[Nfb-web] Fwd: RE: [SEC508] Using presentation to represent structure

[David Andrews]

>
>508 List:
>
>A new book titled "Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory
>Compliance" by  Jim Thatcher, Andrew Kirkpatrick, Richard Rutter, Christian
>Heilmann, Cynthia Waddell, Michael R. Burks, Shawn Lawton Henry, Bruce
>Lawson, Mark Urban, and Patrick H. Lauke was published on Monday.
>
>Information and table of contents at http://jimthatcher.com/book2.htm  
>
>The first chapter "Understanding Web Accessibility" is available online at:
>        http://www.uiaccess.com/understanding.html  
>
>The chapter on Testing for Accessibility will be available on my site in the
>next week.
>
>Jim
> 
>Accessibility Consulting: http://jimthatcher.com/
>512-306-0931
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: sec508-admin at trace.wisc.edu [mailto:sec508-admin at trace.wisc.edu] On
>Behalf Of Sailesh Panchang
>Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 9:07 AM
>To: sec508 at trace.wisc.edu
>Subject: [SEC508] Using presentation to represent structure
>
>Unless content is marked up in a manner that conveys its structure, one may
>not be able to use a Web application meaningfully. The structure is apparent
>to a sighted user. But lists are not marked up as lists, a heading above a
>group of links is not marked up as a heading etc. Data pairs are presented
>in a manner that conveys to a sighted user that the   first item in the pair
>is a label for the one on the right. But it is not marked up as a table or a
>definition list. This is a rich Internet app and in some cases, the data on
>the right side is updated from time to time and a non-visual user may be
>unaware of the change. Can I invoke any paragraph of .21 or .22?
>  I want to convey that this is a basic accessibility principle: separate
>structure from presentation (G1.3 of WCAG 2) 
>But how can I invoke S508?
>Sailesh Panchang
>Senior Accessibility Engineer
>Deque Systems Inc. (www.deque.com)
>11130 Sunrise Valley Drive, Suite #140,
>Reston VA 20191
>Phone: 703-225-0380 (ext 105)
>E-mail: sailesh.panchang at deque.com
>
>
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