- From: Leonard R. Kasday <kasday@acm.org>
- Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 18:05:05 -0500
- To: "w3c-wai-gl@w3.org" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
WCAG 1.0 requires <Q> for markup of short quotations. Here's the requirement: Mark up quotations. Do not use quotation markup for formatting effects such as indentation. [Priority 2] For example, in HTML, use the Q and BLOCKQUOTE elements to markup short and longer quotations, respectively. However, Q is not rendered by MSIE 5, Netscape 4.73, or Opera 3.62 (although it is rendered in Amaya 4.1 and AOLPress 2.0). Examples are shown in [1]. Lynx renders Q, but it merely turns in into a quotation mark so it doesn't matter for Lynx. So if people follow this guideline then most people using visual browsers miss the quotes. If people redundantly use Q and quotation marks, then people using compliant browsers such as Amaya and AOLPress get double quotes. Either way, bad news. I suggest an erratum that omits Q from this requirement. Alternatively, say that Q is omitted till all browsers render them. Either of these is fine with me, and I hope we can settle this fast. It seems like a small thing, but strictly speaking it stops good pages from getting a double A rating. Len [1] http://astro.temple.edu/~kasday/wai/quotes/index.html -- 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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