- From: Yvette P. Hoitink <y.p.hoitink@heritas.nl>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 11:48:45 +0200
- To: <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Hello everyone, In my opinion, Jason White made a good case that we can't require the author to create a logical linear reading order (no 'logical' order may exist, depends on user preference, structure is already present). However, we could require that _if_ reading order is predefined, it should be logical. Using HTML+CSS, I can do stuff like <p style="float:right;">no sense.</p> <p style="float:left;">This sentence makes </p> which will make it visually look like "This sentence makes no sense" but will be read by screenreaders as "no sense. This sentence makes" (Go Yoda!). I think cases like these are bad for accessibility and we should have a success criteria somewhere in our guidelines that addresses this issue. I'm thinking along the lines of: "If a reading order is provided, make sure it is logical". Yvette Hoitink Heritas, Enschede, the Netherlands E-mail: y.p.hoitink@heritas.nl WWW: http://www.heritas.nl
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