RE: Action item: HTML technique for using appropriate semantic elements

Thanks, Yvette!

I think use of semantic elements such as <code>, etc., might be
sufficient technique for SC 1.3.3 (information conveyed through
variations in presentation of text). Typically, documentation presents
code examples, expected user input, expected output, etc., in a
different font than the body text, and for a sighted user the
font-change conveys the information that the text presents a different
type of content than the body text. (Many technical   documents include
prefatory material describing the formatting conventions used in the
text.)

Thoughts?

John

 



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[mailto:public-wcag-teamb-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Yvette Hoitink
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 5:34 am
To: public-wcag-teamb@w3.org
Subject: Action item: HTML technique for using appropriate semantic
elements

I took an action item to write an HTML technique to use the appropriate
semantic elements to mark up the structure. My proposal can be found in
the attachment. 

Originally, I had proposed writing this technique to cover other, less
known, semantic elements like KBD, ADDRESS, etc. However, these elements
do not seem to meet our definition of structure so do not belong as
techniques for 1.3.1. What bothers me about this is that these using
these elements does not seem to be required by any of our success
criteria. I would like to discuss that during the call tonight. I think
we either need to revise our definition of structure or need another
success criterion about using semantic markup. 

As it stands, the only elements I could find that were about structure
as we defined it but not covered by other techniques yet were <link> and
<a> so I used these in the examples. 

Yvette Hoitink
Heritas, Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands
E-mail: y.p.hoitink@heritas.nl
WWW: http://www.heritas.nl

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