- From: Phill Jenkins <pjenkins@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 11:37:41 -0500
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Hey folks, we're all making interesting points about HTML pages, but I think the original question was about HTML pages vs dialogs (not web pages). For example, when installing many products the native OS generates a dialog that contains the Terms and conditions and an accept button. The best convention I've seen is for the dialog to contain the text in a read-only form field so that the text can be copied, so the text inherits the systems font size and colors, and so that the screen readers will automatically read the text. If it is just plain text in the dialog, not associated with any control, then many screen reader settings may skip reading it automatically, it doesn't inherit the fonts size ... etc.. Regards, Phill Jenkins, IBM Accessibility Services http://www.ibm.com/able
Received on Monday, 18 August 2003 12:37:51 UTC