Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 11:53:55 -0400
To: "Joseph Scheuhammer" <clown@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: jdiggs <jdiggs@igalia.com>, <public-svg-a11y@w3.org>
Message-Id: <OFD506781E.568CAA5F-ON85257FCE.00556073-85257FCE.0057557B@notes.na.collabserv.com>
Hi Joseph, In January, Joanie noted that trimming whitespace was omitted from the name and description calculation. The only place I can find trimming white space mentioned is in the second sentence of Accessible Name and Description Mapping. An implementation trims the text and concatenates it with the text alternative computed by previous steps. Is trimming whitespace described elsewhere? In SVG, we have at least one rule that is dependent on whether a string is empty or not. In SVG Views in the second bullet we have If the result is a non-empty string, it SHOULD replace the corresponding name or description for the svg element while the view is in effect. Even though this is a SHOULD I am wondering whether trimming strings is adequately defined. Regards, Fred Esch Watson, IBM, W3C Accessibility IBM Watson Watson Release Management and Quality
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