- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 12:38:04 +0000 (GMT)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
David Holstius wrote: > where I was using a rule: > > .X { width: 12em; text-align: right; } > You are relying on a bug in IE. width is not a defined attribute for inline elements. (I had a bug report on Mozilla rejected because I made this mistake!) > got a reply from an HJ representative: > > > Currently Jaws VPC does not support these tags and therefore > > Jaws is prevented from seeing the associated web form field > > labels. The temporary solution is to remove the surrounding Unsupported *tags* should be ignored. Unsupported *elements* should not be ignored but treated as though they had no surrounding open and closing tags. This is a basic rule of HTML and a rather easy one to implement! > Workable, yes, but does anyone want to see content they've put between SPANs > (in many cases, put there to avoid deprecated or improper markup) rendered They normally are there to allow the HTML to validate against more recent DTDs without the user actually having to think, or the authoring tool to have to change its user interface from one designed to insert "<FONT FACE=". In particular, this example should have been. <label for="MyField" class="X">Some text:</label><input name="Myfield" ... And, in most cases, the styling should be applied to a STRONG, EM, or Hn element, not to SPAN.
Received on Saturday, 2 December 2000 09:35:48 UTC