Re: Example 6: 'selected' attribute

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 12:47 AM, <noreply@w3.org> wrote:

>
> Name: Makoto Ueki
> Email: makoto.ueki@gmail.com
> Affiliation: WAIC (Japan) / Infoaxia, Inc.
> Document: TD
> Item Number: H91
> Part of Item: Examples
> Comment Type: general comment
> Summary of Issue: Example 6: 'selected' attribute
> Comment (Including rationale for any proposed change):
> The'selected' attribute is not necessarily required. This example is
> misleading some authors. Does SC 4.1.2 require authors to set the 'selected'
> attribute to "selected"? The answer would be "No".
>
> Proposed Change:
> Add "The'selected' attribute is not necessarily required." to the
> description.
>
> ================================
Response from the Working Group
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This is related to a difference between HTML and XHTML. To clarify this, we
will change as follows:

Change:

The value is the option element that has the 'selected' attribute set to
"selected".

to:

The value is the option element that has the 'selected' attribute present
(with a value of "selected" in XHTML).


Loretta Guarino Reid, WCAG WG Co-Chair
Gregg Vanderheiden, WCAG WG Co-Chair
Michael Cooper, WCAG WG Staff Contact


On behalf of the WCAG Working Group