- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 04:31:44 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Jonathan Chetwynd <j.chetwynd@btinternet.com>
- cc: WAI IG <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Well, what iCab does (for mouseover) is to present something like: title-value link to href-value in the window status - this could be done in the same way as I proposed, by adding a bit more. I agree that it isn't a universal solution, the universal solution is to fix the browsers. As you pointed out, that takes a long time. I looked a bit into Mozilla and it looks like it is not a complex programming job but requires complex background knowledge I don't yet have. However, it should be possible to fix that browser quite fast. I have taken this project to the evaluation and repair tools group list, but I would suggest that without some input they are not going to solve it by magic <sigh/> since they don't have a lot of spare time. The start of the thread in the ER group (in case anyone else here wants to keep following it) is at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-er-ig/2001Jul/0047 cheers Charles On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote: window.status is already used to present the link or href value Charles wrote <a href="blah" onfocus="window.status='whatever is in the alt'" so this might work for an individual site, but is not a great universal solution. jonathan chetwynd IT teacher (LDD) j.chetwynd@btinternet.com http://www.peepo.com "The first and still the best picture directory on the web" -- Charles McCathieNevile http://www.w3.org/People/Charles phone: +61 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI fax: +1 617 258 5999 Location: 21 Mitchell street FOOTSCRAY Vic 3011, Australia (or W3C INRIA, Route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France)
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