Re: BLINK repair mechanisms (calling all CSS gurus!)

Thanks for your helpful comments.
I've fixed it up with an appropriate LONGDESC. Please take a look and let me
know your comments.
Chris


----- Original Message -----
From: Gregory J. Rosmaita <unagi69@concentric.net>
To: Chris Ridpath <chris.ridpath@utoronto.ca>
Cc: Evaluation & Repair Interest Group <w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 1999 4:05 PM
Subject: Re: BLINK repair mechanisms (calling all CSS gurus!)


> aloha, chris!
>
> one small comment upon
>         http://aprompt.snow.utoronto.ca/tags/blink1.html
>
> whilst the screen-shot is commendably ALT-texted and LONGDESCed, would it
be
> possible to employ the following strategy to expose the contents of a
quote
> real unquote LONGDESC, rather than simply repeat the ALT argument as the
> LONGDESC argument as you do on the above-referenced page?
>
> 1. enclose the graphic in an <A HREF ...> </A> that points to the same URI
is
> used for the LONGDESC -- for example, blink1_screenshot_description.html
>
> 2. describe the screenshot in the body of the page
> blink1_screenshot_description.html
>
> 3. use the ALT attribute for the screenshot image to point the user
towards the
> LONGDESC -- ALT="Description of the screen shot of the dialog used to
validate
> BLINK element"
>
> this would allow someone with image rendering turned off (or for whom
image
> rendering is superfluous) to get an idea of what the screenshot
contains...
>
> the use of a hyperlink to point to the URI of a LONGDESC is an "Until user
> agents..." technique for exposing LONGDESCs that i would like to "see"
added to
> the WCAG techniques document, as it is a strategy that is more palatable
to
> those who bankroll commercial sites than is the suggested "D-link"
technique
>
> please refer also to my comments on the topic archived at:
>
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-er-ig/1999Aug/0023.html
> and note that the examples of this technique that are implemented at
Camera
> Obscura (and referenced in the above-mentioned post) are encoded using a
> "hidden" style declaration because
>
> a) "display : none" isn't very widely supported, and
> b) i was illustrating the use of the technique for a developer who did not
want
> large screen shots that i re-encoded using this technique to be visually
> demarcated with a border and for who objected to my setting the BORDER
> attribute in the IMG element to zero, as there are still UAs in common use
(he
> alleged) that do not respect the BORDER="0" argument when used in an IMG
> declaration
>
> the genesis of using display : none (or the same-background-as-foreground
> kludge) to pass information on to assistive technologies came from my
> experience encoding HTML forms for commercial sites -- while i wanted to
pass
> on supplemental semantic information about the number of radio buttons in
a
> particular field, for example, to speech and refreshable braille users,
the
> person paying me to do the work didn't want the quote extraneous unquote
> information to quote clutter unquote the form he had envisioned, so i used
> stylesheets to hide the extra info...
>
> gregory.
>
> At 02:33 PM 10/21/99 -0400, you wrote:
> >Gregory makes a good point for including the Hx as replacements for
> >BLINK/MARQUEE. Another reason for suggesting Hx is that it might get the
> >user thinking about using these in the future instead of BLINK/MARQUEE.
> >
> >Should we also allow the author to change the BLINK/MARQUEE to something
> >else?
> >
> >To repair a BLINK/MARQUEE we could offer the author 3 choices:
> >1) remove it
> >2) change it to: [EM, STRONG, SPAN, (perhaps Hx)]
> >3) change it to: [enter your own tag]
> >
> >For example, here's how the A-Prompt dialog might look:
> >http://aprompt.snow.utoronto.ca/tags/blink1.html
> >
> >Chris
>
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