Re: Thoughts on the new Draft of WCAG 2.0

At 12:07 AM +0000 11/23/00, Sean B. Palmer wrote:
>5. Change:-
>      <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
>      [...]<body xml:lang="en" lang="en">
>to the following:-
>      <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
>           xml:lang="US-en" lang="US-en">
>      [...]<body>

How well is "US-en" vs "en" supported in the assistive technology?
(Anyone?)

>6. The source of {3.4} should be changed from
>      [...]in XHTML use the Hn elements[...]
>to
>      [...]in XHTML use the h<var title="1 to 6">n</var> elements[...]
>I almost missed that one! (Once again I'm being a bit picky, but it would be
>ironic if the Accessibility Guidlines document didn't follow its own
>content! I really wished that the XHTML 1.0 spec. wasn't valid XHTML...)

I'm not convinced that this replacement is valid.  A better formulation
would be to state:  "Use the H1 to H6 elements".
-- 
Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com>
http://www.kynn.com/

Received on Wednesday, 22 November 2000 21:06:02 UTC