- From: Roberto Scano - IWA/HWG <rscano@iwa-italy.org>
- Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 08:32:02 +0200
- To: "WCAG List" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
- Cc: <chris.hofstader@verizon.net>
In agreement Chris Hofstader, i forward his e-mail that i've received as reply yesterday. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Hofstader" <chris.hofstader@verizon.net> To: "'Roberto Scano - IWA/HWG'" <rscano@iwa-italy.org> Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 10:33 PM Subject: RE: ContextHelp vs. Title... > Hi, > > The Social Security Administration specifically requested we add such a > feature to our HTML support. I have sent in a description of the > attribute to people at the W3C and requested that it be considered for > inclusion in a future version of the specification. Because context > help should be read at the users request, title and alt do not work as > they are often used interchangeably and we need to read them every time > we encounter a field that has one. There didn't seem to be anything in > the specification that let us do what our users needed. > > Thanks, > cdh > > -----Original Message----- > From: Roberto Scano - IWA/HWG [mailto:rscano@iwa-italy.org] > Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 9:14 AM > To: John M Slatin; WCAG List > Cc: chris.hofstader@verizon.net > Subject: Re: ContextHelp vs. Title... > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John M Slatin" <john_slatin@austin.utexas.edu> > To: "Roberto Scano - IWA/HWG" <rscano@iwa-italy.org>; "WCAG List" > <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org> > Cc: <chris.hofstader@verizon.net> > Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 3:07 PM > Subject: RE: ContextHelp vs. Title... > > > 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! > > > Roberto: > Yes... it is interesting but: > > 1 - Shall Freedom Scientific let W3C to add to the future XHTML spec? > 2 - What about the "old" HTML 4.xx / XHTML 1.x? > 3 - What about the UAAG? > > One of the point of the W3C guidelines and also of the WCAG WG must be > to give guidelines to web developers and software developers and not > adapt the "proprietary guidelines"... this is IMHO... > > > > > >
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