- From: Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
- Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 09:32:06 +0300
- To: Stephen Deach <sdeach@adobe.com>
- Cc: Tex Texin <tex@xencraft.com>, Addison Phillips <addison.phillips@quest.com>, www-international@w3.org, Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>, Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>
Stephen Deach wrote: > It may be a mistake for section 508 to require the ability to > completely turn off attached style sheets, since this will render many > non-(X)HTML documents unusable (whether the style-sheets are CSS or > XSLT). It should be possible for the browser/reader to override aspects > of the styling such as background, text-color, and size for readability > purposes (in CSS, by appending a user-specified style sheet to the > existing cascade). If it is required to be able to turn-off/ignore the > attached/referenced style sheets (and I am forwarding this internally to > check with our accessibility and section 508 compliance expert), then it > may be necessary to add an xml:dir attribute so that directionality and > language can both be encoded via markup when xml content is not xhtml. Isn't direction implied in xml:lang which is part of the core XML spec? Regards, ogi
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