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- Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 21:14:18 +0000
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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=13504 Summary: Automation-friendly mMarkup for flagging spelling, grammar, etc. errors and warnings Product: HTML WG Version: unspecified Platform: All OS/Version: All Status: NEW Keywords: a11y, a11ytf Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch ReportedBy: gcl-0039@access-research.org QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org, public-html@w3.org, public-html-a11y@w3.org HTML5 should define a standardized mechanism for marking up phrases flagged by a spelling checker or the like, so that content scripts or assistive technology could react to them intelligently. Use case: Nadia is editing text on a web page, in a textarea or an element with contenteditable=true. Her browser's spelling checker is turned on, and the region has the spellcheck=true, so when the browser's spelling checker marks up spans with a red, wavy underline to indicate what it thinks is a spelling error, and a green, wavy underline to indicate what it thinks is a grammar error. Following the advice in the HTML5 spec (4.6.19 The mark element), the browser marks up these phrases with u elements, distinguishing them using different classes. Unfortunately, these classes are meaningless to Nadia's screen reader, which is unable to distinguish them from ordinary underlines; that is, it has no idea what the classes mean, and whether they have semantic meaning or merely stylistic effects. If only they were marked up in a standardized way, her screen reader could use spoken phrases, audio icons, or inflections to indicate which ranges were flagged as spelling errors, etc. Recommendation: One option would be to extend the mark element with one or more new attributes, such as a flag attribute with enumerated type whose values could be spelling (e.g. "generral") or grammar (e.g. "He run"), or syntax (e.g. coding errors such as end if without preceding if), and also a meaning attribute that could use set to a user-friendly string that would convey the meaning of the markup to the user (e.g. <mark meaning="Character Set"> in a multilingual editor, or <mark meaning="Break Point"> in a debugger). Alternatively, a new element could be created for this purpose, rather than extending the use of the mark or u elements. (It's also worth noting that the important aspect of these indicators is *not* that they're underlines, but that they're spelling or grammar errors, and therefore using the u element is really inappropriate.) -- Configure bugmail: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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