- From: Chris Wilson <cwilso@MICROSOFT.com>
- Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 10:28:11 -0700
- To: "'Gregory J. Rosmaita'" <unagi69@concentric.net>
- Cc: User Agent Guidelines Emailing List <w3c-wai-ua@w3.org>
My question was in the context of providing access for accessibility tools. For mechanisms like the CSS :hover pseudoclass, and onmouseover/onmouseout events in the object model, I don't see a clear solution for providing these mechanisms. The OM is particularly difficult, because I've seen lots of pages developed that use onmouseover to switch the visible content of another area (a clickless frame-selection, sort of). Horrendously bad content-design decision for accessibility, perhaps, but I'd been pondering whether there was some way we could expose that capability to ATs. -----Original Message----- From: Gregory J. Rosmaita [mailto:unagi69@concentric.net] Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 10:09 AM To: Chris Wilson Cc: User Agent Guidelines Emailing List Subject: RE: test suites aloha, chris! is it really necessary to simulate a mouse-over event in the case of exposing the TITLE attribute when used, for example, as an attribute in the definition of a horizontal rule? wouldn't it be simpler to offer the user a choice -- i.e. a "Display Horizontal Rules" and "Display Title (where present)" setting for horizontal rules? and, while i suppose that this may be a suggestion more appropriately addressed to AT developers, who could substitute the content of the TITLE attribute for a horizontal rule -- provided, of course, that the AT is capable of making a DOM call to obtain the necessary information... which mousover events in particular are you attempting to make available to the mouseless user? knowing that would greatly assist us in assisting you... gregory. -------------------------------------------------------- He that lives on Hope, dies farting -- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, 1763 -------------------------------------------------------- Gregory J. Rosmaita <unagi69@concentric.net> President, WebMaster, & Minister of Propaganda, VICUG NYC <http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/vicug/> --------------------------------------------------------
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