[html4all] a11y issues with HTML5 draft and W3C default stylesheets

[Joshue O Connor]

Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
> Joshue O Connor wrote:
> 
>> 1) The use of CSS generated text is new to me. Can you point to anywhere
>> else in the wild where we may find other examples of this, or are these
>> examples bleeding edge test cases? Is it rather like using:
>>
>> <code>
>>
>> #page_main_content a[href^="/"]:after {
>>    content: " (http://www.cfit.ie" attr(href) ") ";
>>    }
>>
>> </code>
> 
> Yeah, that's what's mostly used today, but the possibilities are wide 
> open to do things like writing out images and all sorts of things (doing 
> a "real" image replacement via CSS...I believe only Opera supports this 
> sort of thing at the moment - see 
> http://lofotenmoose.info/css/synopsis/picturehead/)

Thanks for that Patrick. It makes sense  to me now. I also like the

Rendered by, Opera 8.0. Destroyed by Internet Explorer, Firefox

addendum :-)


>> 2) Why are we looking at CSS at all to generate text?
> 
> I think the answer to that should be: because authors can and will use 
> this at some point to generate actual content. They shouldn't (because 
> of all the separation of content and presentation ethos), but they will 
> anyway...so we should make sure that screenreader users aren't the ones 
> missing out because of this.

Sounds like a plan.

Cheers

Josh