- From: Jon Gunderson <jongund@staff.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 04 Nov 1997 08:28:15 -0600
- To: Chris Lilley <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>, Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>, Daniel Dardailler <Daniel.Dardailler@sophia.inria.fr>, w3c-wai-hc@w3.org
- Cc: jongund@uiuc.edu, chris@w3.org
Great! I am glad this is space for it in CSS 2.0. I am not sure what "generatred text" means. But I would like to propose the use of a new style attribute to add text labels to selectors. Using styles would give persons with disabilities the capability to customize the labels to their own needs. What can I do to help foster this proposal? Jon At 09:02 PM 11/3/97 +0100, Chris Lilley wrote: >On Nov 3, 12:17pm, Dave Raggett wrote: > >> At one point there was a proposal for inserting text before or after >> an element. Sadly this was rejected by the CSS and FP working group. > >To be more specific: there have been several proposals for generated >text and it was agreed that CSS 2.0 would not proceed to Proposed >Recommendation status until it was able to render the content of ALT >attributes (which implies being able to deal with generated text, and >also to get at the value of attributes). > >One proposal, which would have provided richly styled generated text, as >rejected as being too complex. A following proposal was rejected as being >too simple and not meeting the needs of designers. Murray Maloney argued >persuasively that generated text was needed, and at his suggestion the CSS2 >specification has a placeholder for the section on generated text. > >Any contributions to filling in that placeholder are of course welcome. > >-- >Chris Lilley, W3C [ http://www.w3.org/ ] >Graphics and Fonts Guy The World Wide Web Consortium >http://www.w3.org/people/chris/ INRIA, Projet W3C >chris@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 >+33 (0)4 93 65 79 87 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France > > Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign 1207 S. Oak Street Champaign, IL 61820 Voice: 217-244-5870 Fax: 217-333-0248 E-mail: jongund@uiuc.edu WWW: http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~jongund http://www.als.uiuc.edu/InfoTechAccess
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