- From: Rick Jelliffe <ricko@gate.sinica.edu.tw>
- Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 22:34:11 +0800
- To: <dd@w3.org>, "Misha Wolf" <misha.wolf@reuters.com>
- Cc: "w3c wai liaison" <wai-liaison@w3.org>, "w3c i18n ig" <w3c-i18n-ig@w3.org>, "Judy Brewer" <jbrewer@w3.org>, <wai-wcag-editor@w3.org>
From: Daniel Dardailler <danield@w3.org> > For your comments on the guidelines and possible conflicts in it, I > suggest you also send a message to wai-wcag-editor@w3.org, where they > belong. Well, I think the i18n group might like to discuss to see if my question has any merit: that is why I limited my earlier posting. > > > In any case, I wonder if 10.5 conflicts to some extent with Chinese > > > typographic conventions: demanding spaces. I wonder if a better or > > > alternative answer might be to indicate the range of a link using some > > > serifs on the underline at the point of adjacency. > > If you don't mind detailing what "the range of a link using some > serifs on the underline at the point of adjacency" means, I can even > post your issue to the WCAG editor list for you once I understand it. You have some Chinese text, all birds nests and no spaces. You have two consecutive words each in seperate <a href=""> elements. In order to conform to the WAI requirements, a space should be inserted. This is against Chinese typographic practise. So I raise the question: is underlining links against good i18n practise (for languages written without spacing), if the underlines for consecutive words meet with no or only-a-tiny gap? If so, what are possible non-intrusive solutions to this that would not upset people's pages? The approach I raised, as an example not a suggestion, is to put a serif (a butt-end) on the end of each underline (or only adjoining ones), to clearly indicate its range. Rick Jelliffe Chinese XML Now! project Academia Sinica Computing Centre Taipei, Taiwan
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