- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 07:10:13 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Gregg Vanderheiden <gv@trace.wisc.edu>
- cc: "'Jonathan O'Donnell'" <jonathan.odonnell@ngv.vic.gov.au>, "'Joe Clark'" <joeclark@joeclark.org>, "'WAI'" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Another approach. Annotate the document changes (for example via annotea [1]) and then provide a link to a service that can extract the annotations and add the initials. cheers Chaals On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Gregg Vanderheiden wrote: > >Why do you put color in document but not initials? Why not initials too, >and let people use style sheets to suppress them if they choose. Or...... > > >Gregg > > -- ------------------------------ >Gregg C Vanderheiden Ph.D. >Professor - Ind. Engr. & BioMed Engr. >Director - Trace R & D Center >University of Wisconsin-Madison > > >-----Original Message----- >From: w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org] On Behalf >Of Jonathan O'Donnell >Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 5:41 PM >To: Joe Clark; WAI >Subject: Re: [166] Organize documents so they may be read without style >sheets > > >Hi Joe and all > >In general, CSS aids accessibility. However, I have stumbled across the >problem that you describe with CSS-generated content. > >On some Web pages, I would like to distinguish content contributed by other >authors. I set up CSS rules that add initials to the end of each >contributed item. To help sighted readers, I also coloured the contributed >items. > >Without the CSS (eg Internet Explorer 5.2 under Mac OS X), readers get >colour, but no initials. With the CSS (eg Safari 1.0 beta 2 or Netscape >7.02 under Mac OS X), they get colour and initials. > >A simple example can be seen at: > http://purl.nla.gov.au/net/jod/metadata/css_example.html#after > >The relevant CSS is: > >.hawks:after > { > content: " [tomtom]"; > } > >As far as I am concerned this flunks WCAG 2.0, or any other accessibility >requirement. > >This doesn't change my belief that the content of the document should not >rely on style sheets for the user to know what it is. I just don't know how >to do it in this case. > > -- Charles McCathieNevile http://www.w3.org/People/Charles tel: +61 409 134 136 SWAD-E http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe fax(france): +33 4 92 38 78 22 Post: 21 Mitchell street, FOOTSCRAY Vic 3011, Australia or W3C, 2004 Route des Lucioles, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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