Re: SVGAccessibilityWG: has-been-clicked or a:visited

"Jonathan Chetwynd" <j.chetwynd@btinternet.com>
> What was the intention* of the Working Group in providing pseudo-class**?

It gives authors the ability to change the rendering of content dependant on 
the link being visited or not.

e.g.
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
<style type="text/css"><![CDATA[
rect { stroke:green; }
a :visited rect { stroke:red;  }
]]></style>
<a xlink:href="/"><rect x="100" y="100" width="100" height="50" 
fill="none"/></a>
<a xlink:href=""><rect x="100" y="300" width="100" height="50" 
fill="none"/></a>
</svg>

The 2nd rect should show with a red stroke, the first with a green.

> The spec as it stands wouldn't seem to be setting a standard approach, how 
> would authors use it, if it were implemented***?

It's not the job of a specification to say how an author should use it, how 
it's used is down to what the author wants to achieve, you seem to be 
confusing a particular rendering - the default non-CSS ones from HTML images 
where an image as a link gets a border, with the ability to change a whole 
range of properties which the CSS pseudo class provides.

The basic ability is provided for in SVG 1.1 currently - I agree it would be 
nice to have this in non-CSS  SVG User Agents, and I would like the WG too 
consider this for future versions (along with the other suggestions we've 
seen in the past related to CSS like features in the non CSS UA's).

If your issue is in reality that links are not identifable as links in a 
consistment manner between SVG documents, and there's not a component of 
this that is stylable, then you should raise this issue.  Or if your issue 
is that adding a border to an SVG graphic, as you demonstrate on your site, 
is too complicated currently, then you should raise this.

There's nothing inherently wrong with the accessibility of this in this 
particular area (there could be some authoring guidelines about consistent 
use, but I can't see anything wrong with the specification)

> *HTML provides a standard use case with border, which isn't available 
> directly in SVG.

This isn't really comparable (nor is it something that HTML specifies, it's 
purely a convention used in many browsers, which has been the main thing 
people have tried to disable for many years.   This is also a very different 
issue to the visited css pseudo-class, this is an issue with links not being 
identified by the UA in SVG and/or the difficulty in automatically bordering 
an svg group.

> Jim suggested a:visited rect { stroke:blue }

Please don't quote me out of context, this alone provides no help in 
understanding the issues, and only serves to confuse people, the above is 
obviously only relevant to certain documents.

Cheers,

Jim.

Received on Saturday, 6 November 2004 21:26:45 UTC