- From: John M Slatin <john_slatin@austin.utexas.edu>
- Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 08:07:06 -0500
- To: "Roberto Scano - IWA/HWG" <rscano@iwa-italy.org>, "WCAG List" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
- Cc: <chris.hofstader@verizon.net>
This new "contexthelp" attribute is potentially very useful. Currently, though, it's a proprietary feature-- only JAWS recognizes it (and only JAWS 5.0 at that). I note that Freedom Scientific plans to propose adding the attribute to the XHTML spec; if that happens this will be a good thing! John John Slatin, Ph.D. Director, Institute for Technology & Learning University of Texas at Austin FAC 248C 1 University Station G9600 Austin, TX 78712 ph 512-495-4288, f 512-495-4524 email jslatin@mail.utexas.edu web http://www.ital.utexas.edu -----Original Message----- From: Roberto Scano - IWA/HWG [mailto:rscano@iwa-italy.org] Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 6:44 am To: WCAG List Cc: chris.hofstader@verizon.net Subject: ContextHelp vs. Title... I wanna to point the attention about this: "Context Sensitive Help Attribute for HTML Introduced for Web Authors. Web/HTML authors may now use the newly defined ContextHelp attribute for form input or other elements. JAWS will tell the user when a field has such extra help whenever it exists. You can choose to review the help using speech or Braille with INSERT+F1 or ignore it. The GetObjectHelp script function has been updated to support this attribute which we will be sending to the WAI as a recommended option to consider as a standard. We will be updating our HTML Challenge to include examples of this as well as other areas of our Web Content. GetObjectHelp also returns the acc_help for MSAA and the description for Java objects. For a demonstration of how this can be used, use the following HTML source: <P><LABEL for=Mname >Mother's Name: </LABEL><BR><INPUT id=Mname name=Mname ContextHelp="For this field make sure you enter your mother's maiden name."></P>" Instead of ContextHelp why they don't propose the "title" attribute that is valid for the <input> ag[1] ? ContextHelp is not defined by HTML/XHTML so it is not possible to use it... Roberto Scano --- [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#h-17.4
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