Re: What is going on

Yes, unrelated to ReSpec. It's a custom postProcess script that wcag uses.
Might have to check its commit history to find rationale.

On Thu, 7 Dec, 2023, 17:06 Kevin White, <kevin@w3.org> wrote:

> Hi Sid,
>
> Thanks for that. So this isn’t anything to do with ReSpec?
>
> Kevin
>
> > On 7 Dec 2023, at 11:15, Sid Vishnoi <sidvishnoi8@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Kevin,
> >
> > This title attribute is being set via wcag.js:
> >
> https://github.com/w3c/wcag/blob/869d568d59430d0237bef389cf34bb8db1eae1db/script/wcag.js#L77-L84
> > I am not aware of the reasoning for it, but it seems like a bug in this
> case.
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 7, 2023 at 3:58 PM Kevin White <kevin@w3.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I am trying to get to the bottom of how and why in ‘[New]’ is being
> included in a `title` attribute for links to glossary terms. For example,
> https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/#dfn-perimeter, includes a link to ‘minimum
> bounding box’. The link is written as:
> >>
> >> <a href="#dfn-bounding-boxes" class="internalDFN" data-link-type="dfn"
> id="ref-for-dfn-bounding-boxes-2" title="[New]">minimum bounding box</a>
> >>
> >>
> >> The source pre-ReSpec for the minimum bounding box definition is:
> >>
> >> <dt class="new"><dfn data-lt="bounding boxes|bounding box">minimum
> bounding box</dfn></dt>
> >> <dd class="new">
> >> <p class="change">New</p>
> >>   <p>the smallest enclosing rectangle aligned to the horizontal axis
> within which all the points of a shape lie. For components which wrap onto
> multiple lines as part of a sentence or block of text (such as hypertext
> links), the bounding box is based on how the component would appear on a
> single line.</p>
> >> </dd>
> >>
> >>
> >> I am guessing the addition of ‘[New]’ is because of the `class=“new”`
> in the <dt> or <dd>. However, I can’t find anything in the documentation
> that indicates why or how this happens. Got any links?
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> Kevin
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Cheers!
> > Sid Vishnoi
> > (ReSpec maintainer here)
>
>

Received on Thursday, 7 December 2023 12:03:48 UTC