- From: Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 09:33:07 +0000
- To: James Graham <jgraham@opera.com>
- Cc: Bruce Lawson <brucel@opera.com>, Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Hi James, > <section> > <h1>I am a heading</h1> > <h2 subtitle>I am an unamusing subtitle</h2> > </section> > > What happens if there is no non-subtitle heading? > > <section> > <h2 subtitle>I am having an identity crisis</h2> > </section> make <h2 subtitle>I am having an identity crisis</h2> without a previous sibling heading a conformance error and modify the algorithm so it ignores the subtitle attribute if the heading it is on does not have a previous sibling which is a heading > It also seems like people might mistakenly use it for subheadings rather > than subtitles: > <h1>I am a heading</h1> > <p>I am some text headed by that h1</p> > <h2 subtitle>I am a subheading</h2> make <h2 subtitle>I am a subheading</h2> without a previous sibling heading a conformance error and modify the algorithm so it ignores the subtitle attribute if the heading it is on does not have a previous sibling which is a heading regards stevef On 2 December 2010 10:30, James Graham <jgraham@opera.com> wrote: > On 12/02/2010 11:15 AM, Bruce Lawson wrote: > >> So, let's make it explicit - so people like Leif who do want adjacent >> headings in a header but not suppress one in the outline. But instead of >> a weird grouping element, let's have a subtitle attribute that people >> can use to suppress a h1 .. h6 from the outline. >> >> This >> >> <h1>BruceLawson.co.uk</h1> >> <h2 subtitle>Gorgeousness in a gimp mask</h2> > > Interesting idea. It leaves open some edge cases though. Presumably if you > have a <section> with a heading the subtitle is the subtitle of that > section: > > <section> > <h1>I am a heading</h1> > <h2 subtitle>I am an unamusing subtitle</h2> > </section> > > What happens if there is no non-subtitle heading? > > <section> > <h2 subtitle>I am having an identity crisis</h2> > </section> > > It also seems like people might mistakenly use it for subheadings rather > than subtitles: > > <section> > <h1>I am a heading</h1> > <p>I am some text headed by that h1</p> > <h2 subtitle>I am a subheading</h2> > <p>I am some text that is expecting to be headed by the h2 but is actually > headed by the h1</p> > </section> > > -- with regards Steve Faulkner Technical Director - TPG www.paciellogroup.com | www.HTML5accessibility.com | www.twitter.com/stevefaulkner HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives - dev.w3.org/html5/alt-techniques/ Web Accessibility Toolbar - www.paciellogroup.com/resources/wat-ie-about.html
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