Re: Clarification on COGA technique for Identify Purpose

Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
> On 18/01/2019 10:49, Joshue O Connor - InterAccess wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> In the Examples section of the success criterion 'Identify Purpose' - 
>> it is suggested that the 'The links in the navigation of a website 
>> are marked-up so that users can add their own icons' but seems to be 
>> no steer on how this is done. [1]
>>
>> Does it imply the use of some other semantic that describes the 
>> container widget of the links? Or a role for the links themselves? If 
>> native HTML semantics are not sufficient its seems to be there should 
>> be an explanation of why.
>>
>> What am I missing?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> [1] https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understanding/identify-purpose.html
>
> Well, the idea is that users would either have an extension (which I 
> don't believe exists yet, for chicken-egg reasons) or custom-written 
> user styles (and a way to add them to each page - not a feature native 
> to most browsers anymore nowadays, so also via an extension) to do 
> this. In the case of custom styles, something that specifically 
> targets microdata/aria landmark attributes and adds a custom image as 
> a background or similar. At least that's my understanding.
Thanks Patrick - sounds about right. The thing that confused me, and 
will likely confuse others, is that we are suggesting the links are 
marked up in 'a certain way to enable x', but not really giving them a 
steer on what that way is.

Again, I know there are proof on concepts and this is a little chicken 
again.

Thanks

Josh
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