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- Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 16:58:11 +0000
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https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=13103 Léonie Watson <tink@tink.co.uk> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Component|website for HTML WG |HTML5 spec --- Comment #6 from Léonie Watson <tink@tink.co.uk> --- With apologies. This bug was filed against the wrong component. Now filed against the HTML5 spec, specifically section 4.5.3 the pre element: http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/grouping-content.html#the-pre-element The section acknowledges the potential inaccessibility of pre-formatted content for certain users: "Note: Authors are encouraged to consider how preformatted text will be experienced when the formatting is lost, as will be the case for users of speech synthesizers, braille displays, and the like. For cases like ASCII art, it is likely that an alternative presentation, such as a textual description, would be more universally accessible to the readers of the document." The suggestion to include an alternative presentation is helpful, but could be made more so by extending it to include an additional commonplace use of the pre element: "Note: Authors are encouraged to consider how preformatted text will be experienced when the formatting is lost, as will be the case for users of speech synthesizers, braille displays, and the like. An alternative presentation would be more universally accessible to readers of the document. For example a textual description of ASCII art, or a downloadable text file containing code examples." -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
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