- From: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 19:46:25 -0400
- To: pjenkins@us.ibm.com
- CC: Jon Gunderson <jongund@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, w3c-wai-ua@w3.org, w3c-wai-pf@w3.org
pjenkins@us.ibm.com wrote: > > Jon wrote: > >1. Alternative ... primary content Alternative equivalents should be available through the User Interface in place of or in conjunction with primary content > >2. Users need access to all content > >3. All views need to be accessible > >4. A source view is one way to make content available, > > but not the only way it should be made available > >5. Access to the attributes of an element is useful > > and should be easy for the user to obtain. > > The problem as I see it is that the definition of "content" includes > "attributes". If we change the definition of content to NOT include > attributes, and define attributes as either used to render the content or > available (i.e., via a source view), then we can re-write and make sense > out of the consensus. I don't think it makes sense to exclude attributes from the definition of content. > 1. Alternative ... primary content > we are not asking for alternative to attributes are we?? - of course > not. I don't understand your statement. > 2. Users need access to all content and attributes > 3. delete - because not all views are nor can be accessible > and neither are all attributes > some are not used and some are changed > to make a view accessible. I agree with that. > 4. A source view is one way to make attributes available, > but not the only way they should be made available, > and the source view (if provided) should always be > an accessible view. The source view is tricky because it presents information about some content, but typically using an entirely different syntax. A source view of an HTML document is an SGML view. > 5. Access to the attributes of an element is useful > and should be easy for the user to obtain. Yes. -- Ian Jacobs (jacobs@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs Tel: +1 831 457-2842 Cell: +1 917 450-8783
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