- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 00:15:07 -0500 (EST)
- To: Bill Kules <wmk@takoma-software.com>
- cc: "W3c-Wai-Ig@W3. Org" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
You have overlooked checkpoint 6.1: Organize documents so they may be read without style sheets. For example, when an HTML document is rendered without associated style sheets, it must still be possible to read the document. Cheers Charles McCN On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Bill Kules wrote: "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 -- Charles McCathieNevile http://www.w3.org/People/Charles phone: +61 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI fax: +1 617 258 5999 Location: I-cubed, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton VIC 3053, Australia (or W3C INRIA, Route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France)
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