RE: question about the draft:

For the record, I've been successfully using CSSclassnames --
both the semantic and the nonce kind -- to provide myself
 (and others) intelligent spoken output and content filtering --

Justin James writes:
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > > -----Original Message-----
 > > From: public-html-request@w3.org [mailto:public-html-request@w3.org] On
 > > Behalf Of Ian Hickson
 > > Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 8:32 PM
 > > To: Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
 > > Cc: public-html@w3.org
 > > Subject: Re: question about the draft:
 > > 
 > > > If this assertion is true, why do you need "an appropriate HTML
 > > element"
 > > > when you can create a nonce-element using the very techniques you
 > > have
 > > > proposed ?
 > > 
 > > A "nonce-element" doesn't help screen readers. Screen readers only know
 > > real HTML elements, they don't know about the inventions of the author.
 > > Extensibility solutions don't help accessibility.
 > 
 > They do, *if* we provide a mechanism to tie semantics/accessibility to the
 > class.
 > 
 > J.Ja
 > 

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