RE: [Bug 10830] New: i18n comment : Please add support for rb

I'm not used to using W3C Bug Tracking service, I'm sorry in advance if this is inappropriate way to respond to an issue. I also apologize for the late comment.

I was reviewing HTML5 ruby for accessibility purposes, and I found that without rb tag, accessibility readers cannot distinguish base characters to highlight when multiple rt exist through DOM.

<ruby>
  B1<rt>R1</rt>
  B2<rt>R2</rt>
</ruby>

When reader is reading "R1", I can't get "B1" through DOM as far as I understand. Apps want to distinguish which rt corresponds to which base characters, and I suppose rb tag is the one that gives me.

Could you please reconsider the decision?


Regards,
Koji

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Subject: [Bug 10830] New: i18n comment : Please add support for rb

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10830

           Summary: i18n comment : Please add support for rb
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Windows XP
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson)
        AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch
        ReportedBy: public-i18n-cjk@w3.org
         QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org,
                    public-html@w3.org, public-i18n-cjk@w3.org


Comment from the i18n review of:
http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/

Comment 7
At http://www.w3.org/International/reviews/0802-html5/
Editorial/substantive: E
Tracked by: RI

Location in reviewed document:
4.6.18 The ruby element
[http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-html5-20100624/text-level-semantics.html#the-ruby-element]

Comment:In all the web sites that we looked at that currently use ruby markup in the wild, over 90% of code uses the rb tag. The current HTML5 model for ruby simplifies the code generally, but making the rb element obsolete will make most existing ruby code non-conformant and make it more difficult to copy code that follows the Ruby Annotation model, from XML or other formats, into HTML5.

Please allow optional use of the rb element as part of the HTML5 model.

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