- From: Gregory J. Rosmaita <oedipus@hicom.net>
- Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:37:57 -0400
- To: Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>, public-xhtml2@w3.org
aloha! first, let me tender my retrospective regrets for missing this morning's XHTML2 working group meeting -- i have a 2 week old migraine i can't shake, and it was some of its ancillary side affects that kept me from attending the call, which a great disappointment to me, as there is much to be done and much to be discussed, especially in the realm of ARIA integration and recent developments on that front... in answer to RichS' inquiry on behalf of the WG, the genesis of the post archived at: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xhtml2/2007Jul/0012 was quite simple -- after discussing terse and long descriptions and how ARIA markup could be used to create bindings, i was asked by the XHTML2 WG (in particular, StevenP) to provide an example of ARIA markup used to describe and contextualize a static image, as i had suggested to the ARIA editors before i discovered that the ARIA spec itself would not contain any ARIA markup for validation purposes... it was a purposefully simple illustration so as to illustrate the bindings possible with ARIA that could be used to provide a long description of an image using content embedded in the document itself as descriptor text, while simultaneously stressing the connection between the description and the illustration not only programmatically, but visually, as well, for those who can see, but who prefer to examine detailed objects as a self-contained whole, hence the wrapping of the image and the caption text in a visual box, so as to indicate to those not using ARIA markup such as those with cognative processing issues (which won't be addressed until version 2.0) at least have a concrete binding alerting them that this image is related directly to this text... the example was originally sparked by our conversation late last year or earlier this year about provision of LONGDESCs for the illustrations and diagrams in the ARIA documents, as you were loathe to use actual LONGDESC pages, due to the extra effort involved in maintaining them as the draft is updated... i made a careless CSS error in my original post, which i had to correct with the follow-up post archived at: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xhtml2/2007Jul/0013.html the always astute gez lemon followed up my post with an alternate suggested means of using ARIA to provide bindings between the image and its textual "equivalent" or "expansion" http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xhtml2/2007Jul/0014.html i hope this clarifies the example's purpose and content -- if not, please let me know and i will attempt to be clearer, gregory. -------------------------------------------------------------- BIGOT, n. One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain. -- Ambrose Bierce -------------------------------------------------------------- Gregory J. Rosmaita: oedipus@hicom.net Camera Obscura: http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/ Oedipus' Online Complex: http://my.opera.com/oedipus/ United Blind Advocates for Talking Signs: http://ubats.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Original Message ----------- From: Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com> To: oedipus@hicom.net Sent: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:52:37 -0500 Subject: XHTML 2 working group request > Hi Gregory, > > I was on the XHTML 2 working group call. We could not understand > what you are asking. Can you clarify? > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xhtml2/2007Jul/0012 > > Rich: > > Rich Schwerdtfeger > Distinguished Engineer, SWG Accessibility Architect/Strategist > Chair, IBM Accessibility Architecture Review Board > blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/schwer ------- End of Original Message -------
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