- From: Charles (Chuck) Oppermann <chuckop@MICROSOFT.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 11:16:42 -0700
- To: "'dd@w3.org'" <dd@w3.org>, Gregg Vanderheiden <po@trace.wisc.edu>
- Cc: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Is this so much of a problem that we'd consider revising CSS for? I can
think of a half-dozen more important things I'd like to see in CSS.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Dardailler [SMTP:danield@w3.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 1998 2:41 AM
> To: Gregg Vanderheiden
> Cc: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Spaces within titles (was: Minor Input For Authoring
> Guidelines)
>
>
> > Daniel Wrote:
> > We need to to add something in the Image section for image in ASCII
> > art (refering to the thread we had a few weeks ago: how to announce
> > them and finish them).
> >
> >
> > GV: Suggested wording?
>
> DD::
>
> [Required]
> If an author chooses to use PRE and Ascii Art instead of more
> expensive (size) image file in graphic format, it is required to
> - provide an indication of the beginning and the end the inline graphic
> [Interim] for screen reader users, make sure you announce the
> beginning and the end of graphic portion using a text "marker"
> understandable by the user reading the page, so that she or he
> can skip this portion.
> [New] for markup aware browser, use <PRE class=graphics> (and </PRE>
> will end the graphic normally)
> - attach both a short description (figure caption) and, if the
> graphic presents important information, a long description using a
> class d-link Anchor.
>
> One way to do the interim job while keeping the original look is to
> use CSS display=none on some marked SPAN:
>
> in STYLE section at the beginning of the HTML:
>
> .ascii-art-marker { display:none }
>
> then
>
> <SPAN class=ascii-art-marker>Ascii-art (ending with Figure caption)</SPAN>
> <PRE class=graphic>
> audio
> |----------|
> video
> |----....------|
> </PRE>
> <P>Figure 6.1: Effect of a delay on playout schedule for different
> settings
> of the sync attribute. <A HREF=long class=d-link>D</A>
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