- From: Joe Clark <joeclark@joeclark.org>
- Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 23:10:04 +0000 (UTC)
- To: WAI-GL <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
By the way, Sailesh, your mailer doesn't word- or line-wrap, and, combined
with top-posting and no whitespace between paragraphs, this makes your
messages supremely difficult to read.
> Section 14.7 of the HTML techniques for WCAG 2 [1] suggests that
> alternative accessible content should be given between start and end
> tags of the iframe ele ment.
iframe isn't inaccessible. Why do we need "alternate accessible content"?
iframe merely points to another HTML document. If that document's
accessible, what's the problem?
> The browser does not display this content and nor is assistive
> technology able to access it.
It's not supposed to; the spec requires that content inside
<iframe></iframe> never be rendered if the iframe src document can be.
It's like summary on table.
<http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/present/frames.html#edef-IFRAME>
The information to be inserted inline is designated by the [238]src
attribute of this element. The contents of the [239]IFRAME element, on
the other hand, should only be displayed by user agents that do not
support frames or are configured not to display frames.
(Unhelpfully, the spec says "should" and not "must." It's possible to make
a user agent that renders the src HTML file *and* the alternative.)
> So I guess this technique is not workable.
It's been superseded by events and in any case represents WCAG 1.0
thinking-- penalize any use of any HTML feature that might make a page
interesting and a bit less boring.
iframes are rarely used except for advertising and have a wealth of
possible accessibility features.
<http://joeclark.org/book/sashay/serialization/Chapter06.html#h3-3150>
> advise against use of longdesc which is ok. But there is need t o
> recommend use of title attribute for iframe. [1]
Why? Why not _name_? Or both, where permitted?
BTW, iframe is like del and ins: It can be block or inline.
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