- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 19:43:29 -0500 (EST)
- To: Tim Roberts <tim@wiseguysonly.com>
- cc: WAI list <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
The Websound browser certainly uses this as an accessibility technique. I would be surprised if it was anything other than a bug in Mozilla though - it isn't the sort of thing most people want turned on most of the time... (unless it is a bug in the stylesheet - i.e. our fault) cheers Chaals On 8 Dec 2002, Tim Roberts wrote: > >Hi all, > >I have a question about the W3's WAI documents. > >I was recently reading the Requirements for WCAG 2.0 >http://www.w3.org/TR/wcag2-req/ and I noticed that in Mozilla 1.2.1 when >any text is clicked, the whole scope of the paragraph changes color to >red. I am not sure if this happens in other browsers. Does anyone know >why this is so? > >This also raises a question as to whether this would be a worthwhile >accessibility feature. For example, an area of text (e.g. Paragraph or >list item) could be made bolder or slightly larger when clicked. The >immediate benefit I saw in this technique for for dyslexics, who could >highlight or enlarge sections of the text by clicking on them > >I would be grateful to hear thoughts on this. > >Tim > > -- Charles McCathieNevile http://www.w3.org/People/Charles tel: +61 409 134 136 SWAD-E http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe ------------ WAI http://www.w3.org/WAI 21 Mitchell street, FOOTSCRAY Vic 3011, Australia fax(fr): +33 4 92 38 78 22 W3C, 2004 Route des Lucioles, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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