- From: Wendy A Chisholm <wendy@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 11:33:48 -0400
- To: Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>, <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
- Cc: po@trace.wisc.edu, Jason White <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
Hello Al, >Would the GL Chairs please test for the sense of the meeting in GL, and report >to PF (or CG) the sense of the meeting in GL, on the question "would GL >like to >have a bacward-compatible means of introducing stronger definitions of 'class' >tokens, symmetric equivalences between text and pictures, and the like, if it >can be arranged?" Personally, yes, I would like to investigate the proposed options: using div to group related items, using rel on a, and using the label/labelfor as with form controls. This would be very useful for associating text with images as well as associating a text transcript with a link to an audio clip or movie. We can put this on our issues list - I suggest this is just an HTML issue and thus goes on the HTML Techniques/technology-specific checkpoints issue list. Thus, why I have included [HTML Techs] in the subject. How quickly do you need a response from us? It is my understanding that your question is: does the WCAG WG support the case that HTML attributes and elements could be redefined to support associating images with text, alternatives with media, etc. Is this also related to using classes to provide semantics? If so, the working group does not consider this needed. Refer to our current open issue that we are waiting from confirmation from William (who originally raised it): http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wcag20-issues.html#4 In our last discussion of the issue, we felt that the scenarios that were being used to make the case fell under the requirement to use style sheets with HTML in a way that when style sheets fail, are not supported or turn off that the content is still readable. For example, a sidebar should fall into the flow of the content (likely at the beginning or the end). The only other place where we've discussed semantics of classes was with identifying navigation bars, but we got support in HTML to use the map element for this. Thanks, --wendy -- wendy a chisholm world wide web consortium web accessibility initiative seattle, wa usa /--
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