- From: Leonard R. Kasday <kasday@acm.org>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 09:18:32 -0500
- To: Bill Kules <wmk@takoma-software.com>, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
- Cc: "W3c-Wai-Ig@W3. Org" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Right, 2.1 needs to be extended beyond color. Len At 10:08 AM 1/22/01 -0500, Bill Kules wrote: >"Leonard R. Kasday" wrote: > > > Another thing that can go wrong is to use CSS classes that mean something, > > e.g. define a class that means "out of stock" which shows up in, say, > > italic or a particular font. When you turn off style sheets there's no way > > to tell that an item is a member of that class, unless you have some > > redundant marking. > >I agree that this would be a problem. I'm wondering >whether any of the WAI Guidelines directly address it. >Checkpoint 2.1 prevents you from using color as the >only status indicator, but doesn't address italics >or font changes. Certainly the implication would >be that you should not depend on any presentational >markup (alternatively, that doesn't have equivalent >functional text?), but I haven't seen this in the >checkpoints. Have I overlooked something, or should >2.1 perhaps be extended beyond just color? > >Bill >-- >Bill Kules, President Takoma Software, Inc. >(301) 891-7271 voice Takoma Park, MD >(301) 891-7273 fax http://www.takoma-software.com >(240) 460-7376 cellphone/pager wmk@takoma-software.com -- Leonard R. Kasday, Ph.D. Institute on Disabilities/UAP and Dept. of Electrical Engineering at Temple University (215) 204-2247 (voice) (800) 750-7428 (TTY) http://astro.temple.edu/~kasday mailto:kasday@acm.org Chair, W3C Web Accessibility Initiative Evaluation and Repair Tools Group http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/ The WAVE web page accessibility evaluation assistant: http://www.temple.edu/inst_disabilities/piat/wave/
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