- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 23:07:32 +0100
- To: Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gluesoft.co.jp>
- Cc: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>, CJK discussion (public-i18n-cjk@w3.org) <public-i18n-cjk@w3.org>
Koji Ishii, Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:17:24 -0500:
>> 1. do we need rb for simple ruby, or will span suffice? (take into
>> account the use case
>> related to fallback)
>
> I went to a seminar about dyslexia in Japan today and wanted to share
> what I heard there.
[ … snip … ]
> The researcher tried several methods to improve their readability and
> found that the best method was to replace Kanji with Hiragana.
>
> To do that, we need this stylesheet in user stylesheet (or as a UA feature):
>
> rb { display: none; }
> rt { display: inline; }
>
> We could have all textbooks to have rb if it's allowed.
A good point. It is, in fact, a variant of what I told Martin: That
<rb> allows us to hide the base for accessibility technology - such a
screen readers.
> And the world
> becomes even friendlier to them if HTML5 implies rb tag when omitted.
Why? Instead of auto-generating <rb> in the DOM, why not make <rb>
obligatory?
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Leif Halvard Silli
Received on Saturday, 21 January 2012 22:08:16 UTC