- From: Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd) <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:06:57 +0000
- To: Murray Maloney <murray@muzmo.com>
- CC: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, Rob Sayre <rsayre@mozilla.com>, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Murray Maloney wrote: > Frankly, your example makes us all second-class citizens, and does not harm > the visually-impaired any more than the sighted. That is, knowledge that > a span of text is in a different color than the rest of the text only > tells me that that text is in a different color. Unless there is a key, I don't > know anything more about that colored text than the next guy -- sighted or not. No > discrimination. > No harm, no foul. You (if you are sighted) can draw inferences from a stretch of text being differently coloured; someone who cannot see the text, and whose UA/AT does nothing special with the combination <font color="...> is denied even the possibility of drawing a meaningful inference. Philip TAYLOR
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