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

[Patrick H. Lauke]

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/)

> 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.

P
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