- From: Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@GMX.net>
- Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 07:59:59 +0100
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: Andreas Neumann <neumann@karto.baug.ethz.ch>, www-svg@w3.org
Ian Hickson wrote: >> > How is this different from having a shape <use>d several times with >> > different cascaded values for 'stroke' and 'fill' and different >> > applied transforms? (I'm not saying it is, I'm just trying to >> > understand exactly what the use case is here.) >> >> This is probably seen as bad use, at least in the case of text: if you >> repeat a text several times just to make an effect, it would hurt >> accessibility. > > It would be trivial for ATs to remark on the duplicate <use> and only show > it once. ATs? I suppose it is Accessibility Tools? *would be* is probably the problem, that means the need to educate the tools (OK), and also means existing tools may fail on this. Note I first saw this objection on multiple use of text in CSS effects done by overlaying two strings to make shadow effect... -- Philippe Lhoste -- (near) Paris -- France -- Professional programmer and amateur artist -- http://Phi.Lho.free.fr -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
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