RE: examples for Failure due to using script to make div or span a user interface control in HTML

Forwarded to A team. 

 


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From: Becky Gibson [mailto:Becky_Gibson@notesdev.ibm.com] 
Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 4:53 PM
To: Ben Caldwell
Cc: cyns@exchange.microsoft.com; Gez Lemon; Gregg Vanderheiden; Loretta
Guarino Reid
Subject: Re: examples for Failure due to using script to make div or span a
user interface control in HTML

 


I have created this failure using the checkbox example: Failure
<http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=Failure_due_to_using_script
_to_make_div_or_span_a_user_interface_control_in_HTML>  due to using script
to make div or span a user interface control in HTML.  Comments appreciated.
Can someone please forward to team A for review? 
thanks, 
-becky 

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Ben Caldwell <caldwell@trace.wisc.edu> 

04/07/2006 02:43 PM 


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Loretta Guarino Reid <lguarino@adobe.com> 


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Re: examples for Failure due to using script to make div or span a user
interface control in HTML

 


 

 




My suggestion would be to start with the examples about div/span as 
checkbox and button and bookmark the idea about more complex controls 
for development after last call.

Thanks for helping us tackle this one,

-Ben

Loretta Guarino Reid wrote:
> I wonder whether this failure is intended to address emulating user
> interface controls that do already exist (parallel to our Link failure).
> Or are we trying to make sure that if someone is emulating a more
> complex control that isn't supported natively, then they are building on
> a link or a button, rather than a div or span?
> 
> Sharing your uncertainty,
> Loretta
> 
> Loretta Guarino Reid
> lguarino@adobe.com
> Adobe Systems, Acrobat Engineering 
>  
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Gez Lemon [mailto:gez.lemon@gmail.com] 
>> Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 11:11 AM
>> To: Becky Gibson
>> Cc: Ben Caldwell; Gregg Vanderheiden; 
>> cyns@exchange.microsoft.com; Loretta Guarino Reid
>> Subject: Re: examples for Failure due to using script to make 
>> div or span a user interface control in HTML
>>
>> Hi Becky,
>>
>> On 07/04/06, Becky Gibson <Becky_Gibson@notesdev.ibm.com> wrote:
>> <quote>
>> I am attempting to write the failure, Failure due to using 
>> script to make div or span a user interface control in HTML, 
>> for 4.1.2. I am trying to find
>> a SIMPLE example that I can easily create and document.   I 
>> was thinking of
>> either creating a checkbox using a span or creating a button 
>> using an image.
>> I was trying to think of a user interface element that did 
>> not already exist in HTML, but those examples are much more 
>> complicated. For example a menu or tree view, although 
>> technically those can be made accessible (even without the 
>> DHTML roadmap technologies).  Are the checkbox and button 
>> examples what this failure is trying to prevent?
>> </quote>
>>
>> Sticking with something similar to what you've chosen, how 
>> about a tri-state checkbox as an example of something that 
>> doesn't exist in HTML?
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Gez
>>
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