- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 16:52:31 -0400
- To: www-tag@w3.org, www-style@w3.org
At 1:29 PM -0700 8/19/02, Kynn Bartlett wrote: >If you make an arbitrary XML document, you cannot expect a browser to >determine that <headline> is supposed to be "a header" -- even if you >have visual presentation added on (via styles) which show that. Ah, but I can expect exactly that. And if a browser fails to do so then I say this is a flawed browser, especially when it comes to accessibility. If humans can recognize certain visual layouts as headers, then I think we should teach our computers to recognize them too. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@metalab.unc.edu | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | XML in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition (O'Reilly, 2002) | | http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0596002920/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.cafeconleche.org/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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