- From: Gregory J. Rosmaita <oedipus@hicom.net>
- Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 04:14:00 +0000
- To: html5alt@lists.wisc.edu
- Cc: www-archive@w3.org
aloha! i hope this makes sense, because it is a thought that was nagging me and keeping me from (hopefully temporarily) resting in peace, and since i don't trust my memory to post about it tomorrow, i've booted my laptop back up, and logged back on to the web to advance an analogy and propose that PF/WAI formally point out to the HTML WG the advantage of applying the LEGEND element -- in addition to the DETAILS element -- more broadly, as the two elements provide authors creating HTML5 documents with a consistent means of strongly binding together collections of uniquely labeled objects and/or widgets... tell me if i'm off-base, but my understanding of the purpose and function of the LEGEND element as defined for FIGURE is derived from the use of LEGEND in the FIELDSET, LEGEND, LABEL model inherited from HTML 4.01 -- the LEGEND provides a terse description of a group of related items: in a FORM, a group of related INPUT controls are labeled by the LEGEND defined for the FIELDSET, while each individual INPUT control is bound to its LABEL with a for/id relationship, just as each IMG in a FIGURE which contains multiple images (as in GreggV's "3 Stages of a Butterfly's Life" example) needs to be bound to a unique terse descriptor through use of @alt and/or aria-labelledby so, my very fuzzy brain concludes that PF should also advise the HTML WG since re-use and consistency are a hallmark of a well-designed markup language, the LEGEND element should be used whenever the situation calls for a terse descriptor/heading for a collection of related objects or widgets, when contained in any of HTML5's media specific elements, such as VIDEO, AUDIO, FIGURE, etc. both the HTML WG and WAI have a vested interest in simplifying the markup language that is intended to become the new lingua franca (or lowest common denominator, depending upon one's point of view) gregory. finally and actually shutting down for the night. --------------------------------------------------------------------- A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking. -- Arthur Bloc --------------------------------------------------------------------- Gregory J. Rosmaita - oedipus@hicom.net AND gregory@ubats.org Camera Obscura: http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/ United Blind Advocates for Talking Signs (UBATS): http://ubats.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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