Re: [css-content] Request for note regarding selection, search, and accessibility of generated content

Hi Michiel.

I agree with what you say here:

On 11/11/2015 08:54 AM, Michiel Bijl wrote:
> I agree that generated content can be useful. Take css counters for
> example, you can only visualise these through pseudo-elements. Wouldn’t
> it be better to get the bugs fixed  than to forbid meaningful content in
> pseudo-elements? I realise that this is easier said than done.

And I wasn't suggesting we forbid meaningful content in pseudo-elements;
merely discourage it until the bugs get fixed.

Speaking of which, a list of key bugs we need fixed can be found here:
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-pfwg/2014Nov/0094.html. See
also, for instance, all the bugs listed as dups of
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12460 -- a bug filed in
1999 btw.

Suggestions regarding what we can do to get them fixed so that generated
content can be:

1. Selected, copied, pasted, etc.
2. Searched for.
3. More easily and reliably exposed -- and exposed completely -- to ATs

??

--joanie

Received on Wednesday, 11 November 2015 14:08:10 UTC