- From: Jason White <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
- Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 11:04:00 +1000
- To: Web Content Guidelines <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
John M Slatin writes: > > But the proposed wording still isn't testable: the problem is with the > word "logical." > > Perhaps a case could be made that Yvette's example of the sentence > broken into paragraphs that are floated left and right violates 3.1 > because the order in which the phrases occur in the default > presentation-- the source document as it would be rendered by user > agents that don't support style sheets-- breaks so sharply from the > principles of English grammar and syntax that meaning cannot be > determined Yes, and this is also true for user agents that do support a style language, but which don't apply the author's style declarations. "Screen" is not the only CSS media type, and CSS is not the only style language. Yvette's example violates the text and purpose of guideline 1.3, but not, as currently worded, the success criteria. Perhaps what we need is: Structure can be derived programmatically without analysing the layout or presentation of the content. (this would be in guideline 1.3 level 2). The structure of Yvette's example is a single paragraph comprising one sentence. Discounting the style attributes, this structure cannot be derived programmatically because the markup specifies two paragraphs ad the order is wrong. Note that my proposal is about separation of structure from presentation, not about reading order as such. I don't think reading order needs to be discussed separately except perhaps in an example, but not in the success criteria.
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