It might be difficult and ultimately an unwieldy waste of effort, however charts aren't really a picture. The objects are visually simple being either boxes or lines. I guess that's why I'm trying to style HTML generated from XML topic maps and XSLT, but the output gets so complicated that it's as inaccessible as flash anyway. Just thinking about it makes my brain hurt...
Mt. > -----Original Message----- > From: Geoff Bowers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 12:27 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [WSG] Org Charts > > > Miles Tillinger wrote: > > How well does the solution degrade for older browser and screen > > readers? I'm trying to come up with a topic mapping solution that > > degrades nicely. It's to replace an existing Flash-based topic > > structure, however solutions seem to be just as > inaccessible as Flash > > anyway? The difficult bit to represent is the lines linking the > > objects. If I could represent it all in text it'd be no problems, > > but that seems to be a distant dream... > > I think "older browser and screen readers" are not relevant in this > context. Organisation charts are by their very nature > data-visualisations. I think the age old adage, "a picture tells a > thousand words" is the very definition of the problem represented. > > -- geoff > http://www.daemon.com.au/ > > > ***************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ***************************************************** > > ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************
