- From: Bill Kules <wmk@takoma-software.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 10:08:26 -0500
- CC: "W3c-Wai-Ig@W3. Org" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
"Leonard R. Kasday" wrote: > Another thing that can go wrong is to use CSS classes that mean something, > e.g. define a class that means "out of stock" which shows up in, say, > italic or a particular font. When you turn off style sheets there's no way > to tell that an item is a member of that class, unless you have some > redundant marking. I agree that this would be a problem. I'm wondering whether any of the WAI Guidelines directly address it. Checkpoint 2.1 prevents you from using color as the only status indicator, but doesn't address italics or font changes. Certainly the implication would be that you should not depend on any presentational markup (alternatively, that doesn't have equivalent functional text?), but I haven't seen this in the checkpoints. Have I overlooked something, or should 2.1 perhaps be extended beyond just color? Bill -- Bill Kules, President Takoma Software, Inc. (301) 891-7271 voice Takoma Park, MD (301) 891-7273 fax http://www.takoma-software.com (240) 460-7376 cellphone/pager wmk@takoma-software.com
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