- From: David MacDonald <befree@magma.ca>
- Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:11:40 -0400
- To: "'WCAG'" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <001b01c6c2e9$601d4fa0$650fa8c0@home>
On Thursday's call we discussed the <Q> element with some CSS styling to accommodate different renderings in different browsers. There was concern that making it a sufficient technique would create the impression that just using quotes, (i.e John said, "I am hungry") would not be sufficient. Cynthia offered the suggestion that perhaps we should simply make using the quotation characters ("") around a quotation as a sufficient technique also so that people will know its ok to use them. Someone said that we can't do that because if the web master puts a space after the quote (i.e., John said, " I am hungry") it will mess up the Screen Reader. I think we can easily address that concern. We introduce a failure technique that says: Failure: placing spaces between quotation marks and the text they are surrounding. Then we could use Cynthia's suggestion, and make using quotation marks a sufficient way to mark up quotations, *and* we could make sufficient technique that says using the <Q> element with CSS would be another way to meet the SC. Cheers David access empowers people... ...barriers disable them... www.eramp.com
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