- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 14:33:00 -0500 (EST)
- To: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- cc: pjenkins@us.ibm.com, w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
I don't think that providing a source view solves the problem. It requires the user to understand the markup language being used, which is not necessarily the case, and has thus far been explicitly excluded as a requirement on the user. In addition, there are only some attributes which are actually content for the user (title and alt are the main ones but I suspect there are a couple of others somewhere). longdesc, most of the attributes for object, name, id, and others are relevant to the User Agent but not directly to the user (except as a repair strategy for dealing with user agents that don't implement the relevant specifications) and exposing this information is not required, nor in many cases very helpful. In general having the ability to render the source is only relevant to "power users" who are able to interpret (and therefore write) the markup language, which is a small subset of those who read content. With the advent of decent authoring tools this will in fact diminish - how many people can read RTF or Word binary format? cheers Charles McCN pjenkins@us.ibm.com wrote: > > After reading the user agent proposed rec guidelines [1] document and the > associated techniques [2], I have a question about how to interpret the > priority 1 checkpoint 2.1 Ensure that the user has access to all content > ... The techniques [2] give examples about AMAYA's ability to show the > attributes of an element - which is nice, but more like what I would > expect from an editing tool and environment than what I would expect from a > user agent that majors in rendering content. But my question is; - would > the current technique of rendering the source view of the content meet this > checkpoint? If not, it needs to be explicitly stated. If it would be OK, > then the instances for which it would be O.K. need to be stated in the > techniques. then On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Ian Jacobs wrote: I believe that, while not an ideal solution, a source view would meet this requirement. A navigable source view would be better, but still forces people to read the markup, which is not very desirable. [more, snipped]
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