- From: Gregory J. Rosmaita <oedipus@hicom.net>
- Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:15:02 +0000
- To: www-html-editor@w3.org, public-xhtml2@w3.org
aloha! this is a resend of a post that i thought i had sent out several months ago, when i asked that the asterisks in the Access Module be glossed, but i can't find any record of this emessage actually reaching the lists, so please excuse the lateness of the observation, but in the document located at: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/doctype.html#s_doctype which describes the modules that comprise the XHTML 1.1 Document Type, contains several module names followed by an asterisk -- what is the purpose of the asterisk? i could not find any text in the document to indicate what the asterisks are supposed to signify, and none of the asterisks is glossed with an ABBR, such as: <abbr title=" mandatory">*</abbr> please note that the value of the @title contains a leading whitespace, as there is no space between the module name and the asterisk; therefore, without the whitespace preceding the gloss the word "Module" would be co-joined with whatever the gloss for the asterisk is... this is the "convention" that i worked out with shane as per the use of the asterisk in the Access Module to indicate the default state; could we port this solution to all of our documents, so as to be in compliance with WCAG? shane, if it would help, i can re-re-review all of the 1.1 documents to ascertain where asterisks are used to convey content... gregory. ------------------------------------------------------------- ADVICE, n. The smallest common coin. -- 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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