- From: Al Gilman <asgilman@access.digex.net>
- Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 12:33:06 -0400 (EDT)
- To: dd@w3.org
- Cc: w3c-wai-wg@w3.org
to follow up on what Daniel Dardailler said: > > Jason wrote: > > > 1. Since my original message on the topic, I have revised my braille media > > type proposal. As stated in my Braille CSS requirements document, I have > > suggested that the following two media types be defined, parallel to the > > "print" and "screen" types, to distinguish between embossed and dynamic > > braille: > > > > media="braille embossed" > > media="braille displayed" > > We also had mentioned things like "tty", "hugefont", "lowres". > We need to decide what exactly we want in HTML4 vs being adopted by > market practices. > For background, the issues are disscussed somewhat under "policy" and "media-profiling" in Status of ACSS action item on 02 July 1977 http://www.access.digex.net/%7Easgilman/web-access/ACSS/status1.html I will write a more propositional piece on this area today or tomorrow. The key technical idea is that the styles domain defines the type used to classify media, and HTML per se doesn't [technically] know anything but the type of text used to communicate media types to the stylesheet processing. If that is clear as mud, remember that I will follow soon with more detail. -- Al Gilman
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