- From: Anne Pemberton <apembert@crosslink.net>
- Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 06:33:05 -0800
- To: <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
- Cc: <wapdesign@wapdesign.org.uk>
At 12:09 AM 11/17/00 -0000, Sean B. Palmer wrote: HTML does contain legacy presentational elements, >for example <hr />, but these should be avoided in the interests of >accessibility (and maybe we could state that in writing???). Assuming that accessibility means accessibility for all people with disabilities, and many/most disabled people use the web visually, why would you want to avoid the use of an element that aids in visual understanding? (I would have written yesterday about your example of a titled <hr>, but your address clogged up my mail and I deleted it.) The title for a line should be Line, or if a graphic is used for the line, "Line of pumpkins", "Row of pebbles", etc. This presents the same information to sighed and unsighted users alike. Neither group can just study the line and know what it's there for, one must input the content on both sides of the line to find out what is being separated or set off. Anne Anne L. Pemberton http://www.pen.k12.va.us/Pav/Academy1 http://www.erols.com/stevepem/Homeschooling apembert@crosslink.net Enabling Support Foundation http://www.enabling.org
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