RE: [LIKELY JUNK]Re: title/alt attribut keyboard accessibility

Agreed. Most of the griping I hear from authors about one browser or another not being "HTML compliant" comes from the assumption that the HTML spec defines rendering, simply because a few web browsers render something one way, and the other browsers render it differently. The reality is, the HTML spec does not define UA behavior, and for good reason: HTML doesn't know what the UA's capabilities are, nor does it care, or even matter.

J.Ja

> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-html-request@w3.org [mailto:public-html-request@w3.org] On
> Behalf Of David Poehlman
> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 6:56 AM
> To: Schnabel, Stefan; Laura Carlson; HTML WG; Steve Faulkner; W3C WAI-
> XTECH; aurélien levy
> Subject: Re: [LIKELY JUNK]Re: title/alt attribut keyboard accessibility
> 
> 
> I'm not getting the distinction here.  What is the speciality of title
> that
> it should be singled out in this way and Why should it be done here
> rather
> than in aria or uaag?  What is important is that anything done be
> device
> agnostic and device type agnostic as well otherwise, we need a fallback
> cascade which might be difficult to speck.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Schnabel, Stefan" <stefan.schnabel@sap.com>
> To: "Laura Carlson" <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>; "HTML WG"
> <public-html@w3.org>; "Steve Faulkner" <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>; "W3C
> WAI-XTECH" <wai-xtech@w3.org>; "aurélien levy" <aurelien.levy@free.fr>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 3:55 AM
> Subject: RE: [LIKELY JUNK]Re: title/alt attribut keyboard accessibility
> 
> 
> We need a UA-specific hotkey for displaying the content of the title
> attribute
> in the same separate (yellow) popup window as for the mouseover
> operation.
> 
> HTML5 spec definitely should be more precise + complete here.
> 
> In Lynx the "title" content could be displayed e.g. in Lynx status area
> on
> request.
> 
> - Stefan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wai-xtech-request@w3.org [mailto:wai-xtech-request@w3.org] On
> Behalf
> Of Laura Carlson
> Sent: Dienstag, 28. Oktober 2008 00:39
> To: HTML WG; Steve Faulkner; W3C WAI-XTECH; aurélien levy
> Subject: [LIKELY JUNK]Re: title/alt attribut keyboard accessibility
> 
> Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-
> xtech@w3.org>
> 
> Aurélien Levy wrote [1]:
> 
> >> Is it possible to have something in the spec to say that the way of
> >> rendering the content of the title/alt attribut must be non specific
> to
> >> a certain type of pointing device or is it to the UAAG spec to say
> >> something like that ?
> 
> Ian Hickson wrote [2]:
> 
> > Right now HTML5 doesn't say that user agents should do anything with
> this
> > information. The non-normative rendering section will probably
> suggest
> > current behaviour but hasn't been written yet. (Volunteer editors
> welcome;
> > see the e-mail from earlier today.)
> 
> Related: Steve Faulkner's June 6, 2008 bug report "User Agent display
> of title attribute content not defined":
> http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=5807
> 
> Best Regards,
> Laura
> 
> [1]
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-
> html/2008Oct/thread.html#msg131
> [2]
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-
> html/2008Oct/thread.html#msg134
> 
> --
> Laura L. Carlson

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