- From: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>
- Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 13:03:15 +0200
- To: "Jonathan Avila" <jon.avila@ssbbartgroup.com>, "'Phill Jenkins'" <pjenkins@us.ibm.com>, public-comments-wcag20@w3.org
- Cc: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 03:58:48 +0200, Jonathan Avila
<jon.avila@ssbbartgroup.com> wrote:
>> How can they be programmatically determined to be next to each other and
>> not be rendered adjacent to each other, except there are bugs in the
>> user agent?
>
> I assume that the statement concerning 'rendered adjacent' was written
> to cover the situation where positional CSS is used to place the
> associated button somewhere else on-screen not visually adjacent even
> though the elements occur in sequence in the DOM tree.
Right. And if you happen to have a rudimentary (ha!) CSS layout engine
available it can programatically determine whether this will happen. (It's
just that CSS layout is actually a very complex part of a browser. Some
authoring tools have it, many don't).
cheers
Chaals
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