RE: Current suggestion for subheading isn't accessible

I usually use <small> instead of <span> in similar cases. I believe it gives to the baseline (or sub-heading) a bit of semantic: it is still the title, but it has lower importance.
I'm not sure how screen readers will treat it, but it is still better than span.

Angela



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-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Yang [mailto:ian@invigoreight.com]
Sent: mardi 7 mai 2013 16:39
To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Subject: Current suggestion for subheading isn't accessible


Please refer to common idioms suggestion in HTML spec:
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/common-idioms.html#sub-head


The first example shows an image in which there is one line of text "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers". And its suggested HTML markup is <h1>The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers</h1> The problems with that markup are:
1. It doesn't actually markup the subheading. There is only a heading element (<h1>). And that's because presentation didn't being separated from structure. How the markup was coded was affected by the design (but it shouldn't be). If the line of text consists of a heading and a subheading, then it should be markuped by using two particular HTML elements, and then use CSS to turn them into one line according to the design.
2. Screen reader users have no way to know the subheading. They will regard what they hear as a single heading.

The second example shows an image in which there are two lines of text. The first line is "Ramones" and the second line is "Hey! Ho!
Let's Go". And its suggested HTML markup is <h1>Ramones - <span>Hey! Ho! Let's Go</span> </h1> The problems with that markup are:
1. Still, it doesn't markup the subheading. There is only a heading element (<h1>). A <span> in a heading doesn't make the <span> a subheading. (although you could use CSS to make it looks like a
subheading)
2. Screen reader users have no way to know the subheading. They will regard what they hear as a single heading.


Sincerely,
Ian Yang


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