- From: Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>
- Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 15:34:01 -0400
- To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org, w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
Note: I am asking the WAI-PF to consider this matter because X-Link is in Candidate Recommendation status. However, the format requirements involve the expertise of GL and UA groups. GL is involved because the proposal would give authors the option to frame their links in fully descriptive text, and no longer require them to have the sensitive text range itself be complete documentation of the action opportunity. UA is involved because this adds work to the client software -- to give the user the option to play out the link's immediate logical context and not just what is inside the link. The basic proposition is to resurrect "click here" links by having a defined context for all links that should be included when a link is read out of context. This would apply to audio out and to lists of links. It can default to some rule in terms of the parse tree. like the next container up. Assistive technology would have the option, of course, of grabbing the largest subtree in which this is the only link. But we need something like html:td.headers or html:label to identify how much of the context is actually defining the link beyond what immediately is click-sensitive, and in lists there should be an html:axes equivalent to link back through the list headers if the type information given there is material. But there should be something like html:label for links that allows for explicit marking of the link context or framing text around the hotspot itself. And the place for this is in the linking spec., not the HTML spec. Al
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