Re: LC-560

At 20:59 22/05/2006, Andi Snow-Weaver wrote:
<quote>
Another comment from Bruce Bailey. He thinks that G14: Ensuring that color
encoded information is also available in text is too restrictive to be part
of 1.3.2.

He proposes associating G14 with 1.3.4 instead of 1.3.2 and adding a
technique for 1.3.2 where red H3 headings are underlined and green H3
headings are italicized.

The question is: do we think that underlining or italicizing something
meets the 1.3.2 success criteria that the "information conveyed by the
color" is "visually" evident without color?
</quote>

At first sight, the proposed technique meets SC 1.3.2. The problem is:
if the colours, underlining and italics are done with CSS, and the user
browses with a "user style sheet", then all the effects are lost.
(On the other hand, user style sheets are not the responsibility of the
content author.)
At Level 1, the italics and underlining don't need to be conveyed in
text or programmatically determined.

Regards,

Christophe


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