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

[Joshue O Connor]

Hi Gregory,

Thanks for the mails on this issue. I am currently parsing them and will
track any discussion here, and I have some questions below. The issue
seems to boil down to lack of current support for psuedo elements in
UA's and this is compounded by the suggested use of very similar
declarations in the CSS. However is this use of .issue and .big issue
style rules something that you came up with the make a point or are they
a recommended way of presenting this CSS generated text?

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>

to show URLs when using print styles that are not displayed on the webpage?

2) Why are we looking at CSS at all to generate text?

3) Will using this method bypass the DOM completely?

4) What in principle is this proposed method is useful for?

Cheers

Josh