- From: Leonard R. Kasday <kasday@acm.org>
- Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 11:00:41 -0400
- To: "Sean B. Palmer" <sean@mysterylights.com>, <w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org>, "Harvey Bingham" <hbingham@acm.org>
- Cc: <wai-xtech@w3.org>
What would you think of using RDF to indicate 1. that the class is informationally relevent for the user (i.e. more than just appearance) 2. A description of what the class means. If we want to push this much further it's a matter for PF. Although it is a candidate for inclusion in EARL. Len p.s. I had once suggested adding at "alt" attribute to style sheets to convey the meaning of a class, but it ran afoul of the philosophy that style sheets should contain no content. At 03:28 PM 4/2/01 +0100, Sean B. Palmer wrote: ><snip> >Oh please no! Using classes to identify semantics when there is no >strict mechanism for doing so? Classes may well be there to group >elements of a certain type, but this is a very short first party >assertion in that it groups elements of a certain type without >providing any reason of why these elements are grouped. If the class >system is used otherwise, then you are extending the XHTML 1.0 >specification; you should be using Modularization of XHTML [1] >instead. Pragmatically, given the limitations of XHTML 1.0 in >providing annotations (or even links to annotations), there's not >really much we can do for classes, except perhaps to use URIs as class >attribute values [2]. > >[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization >[2] >http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-er-ig/2001Feb/0136.html >cf. http://purl.org/net/uriprofile/ > >-- >Kindest Regards, >Sean B. Palmer >@prefix : <http://webns.net/roughterms/> . >:Sean :hasHomepage <http://purl.org/net/sbp/> . -- Leonard R. Kasday, Ph.D. Institute on Disabilities/UAP and Dept. of Electrical Engineering at Temple University (215) 204-2247 (voice) (800) 750-7428 (TTY) http://astro.temple.edu/~kasday mailto:kasday@acm.org Chair, W3C Web Accessibility Initiative Evaluation and Repair Tools Group http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/ The WAVE web page accessibility evaluation assistant: http://www.temple.edu/inst_disabilities/piat/wave/
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