Re: Proposal for Publishing REC Errata

On 10/15/2014 08:26 PM, Stephen Zilles wrote:
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> [SZ] As pointed out below, the first proposal is not very nice for accessible access (and is hard to read visually) and the second proposal makes it difficult to see the original text. Why not use a mark-up that has both the original REC text and the proposed replacement text; for example, <span class="errata"><span class="original">The REC text fragment</span><span class="replacement">The replacement text fixing the error.</span></span>. Then styling for normal access would make the "replacement" class be "display:none" and would put a yellow background (as a warning) on the "original" text. Then using either ":hover" or an explicit toggle on the "errata" <span>, the "replacement" text could be displayed to anyone that wanted to see it. This convention would, I believe, give better accessible access because instead of small fragments of insertions and deletions, the entire section that needed to be re-written would be present in two forms, either of which could be presented to the
  
viewer.

I believe, Steve, that this is exactly what <ins> and <del> are for. :-)

~fantasai

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