- From: Jim Allan <jimallan@tsbvi.edu>
- Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:52:31 -0500
- To: <w3c-wai-ua@w3.org>
>From ACTION-33: Create a proposal for rewording of 4.6.2 http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/tracker/actions/33 <old> 4.6.2 Bi-Directional: The user has the option of searching forward or backward (in document order) from any selected or focused location in content. (Level AA)@@NEW@@ </old> <new> 4.6.2 Bi-Directional: The user has the option of searching forward or backward from any selected or focused location in content. (Level AA)@@NEW@@ </new> Note: removed (in document order), seems redundant. My thinking is...the rendered view and DOM tree is created from the HTML. Searching in any direction will move through the DOM tree and content in the appropriate direction as necessary. To go in some arbitrary order would be more work for the developers and they are unlikely to do that. The author may have created the HTML in one order and repositioned elements using CSS or JavaScript. The UA cannot guess at intentions or know how elements are assembled visually via CSS. The simplest way to search would be the order in which information appears in the HTML and the subsequent DOM tree. Jim Allan, Accessibility Coordinator & Webmaster Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired 1100 W. 45th St., Austin, Texas 78756 voice 512.206.9315 fax: 512.206.9264 http://www.tsbvi.edu/ "We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us." McLuhan, 1964
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