- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 20:55:16 +0000 (UTC)
- To: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, David Woolley wrote: > > Real world authors don't write with semantic markup (in my view most real > world authors really should not be using a semantic markup language[1]). I know. See the parts of my e-mail where I mentioned the fact that even despite this it is quite possible to write media-specific renderers that do not rely on another browsers' screen rendering to generate the "assistive technology" output. > The difference between the leading AT products and screen readers is > that the AT products take lots of hints from the DOM and MSAA hooks, in > order to try and make some sense out of real world sites These systems (those that use the DOM) would not be affected by the proposed 'content' stylesheet stuff, so I don't really understand your original concern. > whereas a screen reader will simply read what is on the screen of a text > mode browser. ...which is definitely the wrong way of doing things. -- Ian Hickson )\._.,--....,'``. fL U+1047E /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. http://index.hixie.ch/ `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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