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RE: accesskeys and an ordered list starting at 0

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From: Jukka Korpela
Date: Aug 11, 2002 11:58PM

Tim Luoma wrote:

> > If it quacks like tabular data, and it waddles like tabular
> > data, then it IS tabular data, and you should use a table.
>
> It reads like an ordered list that starts at zero, which would be less
> code heavy and easier to be accessible.
>
> But I'll leave it as a table ;-)

A table is fine for this, since it's really tabular data, though very simple
in structure.

But I wouldn't oppose using UL either, on practical grounds.

As regards to OL, you _could_ use <ol start="0"> or the CSS equivalent, but
this is not recommendable on two grounds: First, some browsers have failed
to implement the start attribute correctly. Second, you would rely on a
presentational issue (numbering style) in a matter of content: it is crucial
that the very digits 0, 1, 2 etc. are associated with the text. When, for
example, a user style sheet is used to override the author's suggestions on
numbering style, so that e.g. "a", "b", "c", etc. (or, in speech
presentation, "first", "second", etc.) are used instead, the information
content gets distorted badly.

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Jukka Korpela, senior adviser
TIEKE Finnish Information Society Development Centre
http://www.tieke.fi
Phone: +358 9 4763 0397 Fax: +358 9 4763 0399


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