- From: Gregory J. Rosmaita <oedipus@hicom.net>
- Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:03:50 +0000
- To: wai-xtech@w3.org, wai-liaison@w3.org
[Reviewer's Note: this post refers to the Candidate Recommendation draft of CSS 2.1, http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-CSS21-20070719 comments upon which are due by 20 December 2007] Currently, the CSS2.1 Last Call draft's Appendix A, states: <q cite="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/aural.html#propdef-cue"> If a user agent cannot render an auditory icon (e.g., the user's environment does not permit it), we recommend that it produce an alternative cue. </q> This is insufficient from the point of view of those who benefit from aural styling; this definition should contain even more robust verbiage than is contained in Section 19 of CSS2: <q cite="http://www.w3.org/TR/css2/aural.html#cue-props"> If a user agent cannot render an auditory icon (e.g., the user's environment does not permit it), we recommend that it produce an alternative cue (e.g., popping up a warning, emitting a warning sound, etc.) </q> We propose that the extant text in the CSS2.1 working draft be amended as follows: <q source="PFWG"> If a user agent cannot render an auditory icon (e.g., the user's environment does not permit it or the user does not have access to a device with a sound card), we recommend that it produce an alternative cue (e.g., emitting a warning sound using the device's internal speaker or generating an accessible warning in accordance with the users' pre-configured operating system settings (for example, if "Show Sounds" or the equivalent is enabled at the Operating System (OS) level, use the designated alternative mechanism to provide an accessible warning). </q> ---------------------------------------------------------------- CONSERVATIVE, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. -- Ambrose Bierce, _The Devil's Dictionary_ ---------------------------------------------------------------- Gregory J. Rosmaita, oedipus@hicom.net Camera Obscura: http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/index.html ----------------------------------------------------------------
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