RE: Implying rb for accessibility (was RE: HTML5 and ruby

> Why? Instead of auto-generating <rb> in the DOM, why not make <rb> obligatory?

I'm personally fine with either, but I know some people wants to omit rb for simple case, so making it optional gets more people happy.


Regards,
Koji

-----Original Message-----
From: Leif Halvard Silli [mailto:xn--mlform-iua@målform.no] 
Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2012 7:08 AM
To: Koji Ishii
Cc: Richard Ishida; CJK discussion
Subject: Re: Implying rb for accessibility (was RE: HTML5 and ruby

Koji Ishii, Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:17:24 -0500:
>> 1. do we need rb for simple ruby, or will span suffice? (take into 
>> account the use case related to fallback)
> 
> I went to a seminar about dyslexia in Japan today and wanted to share 
> what I heard there.
  [ … snip … ]
> The researcher tried several methods to improve their readability and 
> found that the best method was to replace Kanji with Hiragana.
> 
> To do that, we need this stylesheet in user stylesheet (or as a UA feature):
> 
> rb { display: none; }
> rt { display: inline; }
> 
> We could have all textbooks to have rb if it's allowed.

A good point. It is, in fact, a variant of what I told Martin: That <rb> allows us to hide the base for accessibility technology - such a screen readers.

> And the world
> becomes even friendlier to them if HTML5 implies rb tag when omitted.

Why? Instead of auto-generating <rb> in the DOM, why not make <rb> obligatory? 
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Leif Halvard Silli

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