Re: html 5 and accessibility issue

On Jun 30, 2007, at 9:08 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 15:53:39 +0200, aurelien levy  
> <levy@tektonika.com> wrote:
>> - actually their is no fallback content for embed element
>
> Why is that needed for plugins?

That's when fallback content is needed: for non-text media (that is  
sometimes serviced through plug-ins).

>> - the only fallback content for iframe elements is pure text, i  
>> think we need to authorize an "a" element to link to the content  
>> of the iframe
>
> Doesn't the <iframe> do that already? I'm not sure <iframe> needs  
> "fallback" content at all.

<iframe> in HTML 4.01 has %flow fallback content. In HTML5 it is not  
supposed to contain anything but another browsing context (another  
html file I believe though that's probably not explicit or clear  
enough by simply saying a browser context ). In other words now the  
draft reads:

"An iframe element never has fallback content, as it will always  
create a nested browsing context, regardless of whether the specified  
initial contents are successfully used."

However, if it said that the type of the iframe @src had to begin  
with "text/  or "application/xml" then that might be sufficient.  
Simply saying a browser context could lead authors to think a direct  
@src link to an image or other non-text media was allowed (even PDF  
or Flash might require fallback content since those do not have the  
accessibility capabilities of HTML).

Take care,
Rob

Received on Saturday, 30 June 2007 15:29:06 UTC