[thelist] Suckerfish

[aardvark]

On 7 Jun 2005 at 16:00, Stephane Deschamps wrote:

> On 6/1/05, aardvark <evolt at roselli.org> wrote:
> > 
> > i use a modified version of SuckerFish with an external style
> > sheet... it also uses some modified JS to work in more browsers and
> > offer keyboard access... and in fitting with WAI suggestions, it uses
> > an ordered list instead of unordered...
> 
> That's interesting, I hadn't heard that idea thus far.
> What's the idea behind it?

the idea behind it is that when the individual list items are spoken 
or perhaps enlarged so much that they are visible only one at a time, 
the numbers provide context to the end user to know where he/she is 
in the list... how many levels deep am i? 

the recommendation actually suggests using nested numbering to show 
which nested list you are in:

1.1 Foo
1.2 Bar
1.3 FooBar
	1.2.1 Monkey
	1.2.2 See
		1.2.3.1 Dance, Monkey
	1.2.3 Monkey
	1.2.4 Do
1.4 Monkey See Bar
1.5 Monkey Do Foo

but since browsers that handle ordered lists don't do it that way, it 
isn't 100%, and i'm not going to hack together a list with numbering 
within the content and nested elements to hide it from traditional 
site users...

if that made sense...

anyway