- From: Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:07:49 +0200
- To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
At 17:50 12/06/2006, Tina Holmboe wrote:
>On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 04:36:07PM +0200, Christophe Strobbe wrote:
>
> > This example also shows the limitation of SC 4.1.1 when applied to CSS.
> > Suppose you had the following style rules (instead of the border-width
> > example):
> >
> > body { background: white; color: black; }
> > h1 { background: black; color: whitd; } /* reverse the colours, but with
> > typo in 'white' */
>
> So, basically, we /do/ have a case of what I asked last week: a stylesheet
> can pass SC 4.1.1 and be harmful to accessibility - both at the same time.
Yes, but one could argue that the text in the above example is still there
and selecting it or using adapted accessibility settings in your user agent
can make it visible again. On the other hand, if it is not visible (and
you're not using a screen reader), why would you assume the text is there?
Examples like this are not the only arguments against this weak SC 4.1.1:
there is something very hypocritical about claiming that technology X is
in your baseline and using illegal or invalid code at the same time.
Regards,
Christophe
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