[Accessibility] Text attributes issues

Pete Brunet brunet at us.ibm.com
Tue Dec 9 07:26:56 PST 2008


I should have cc'd the open a11y list too...

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Pete Brunet/Austin/IBM at IBMUS
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Willie Walker <William.Walker at sun.com>
Date:
12/09/2008 01:29 AM
Subject:
[Accessibility-ia2] text attributes issues
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Aaron, This is the list of text attributes issues: 

Existing entries in Mozilla's bugzilla 
text-indent and text-align should really be object attributes - 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=460932 
font-size text attribute should be exposed in pt units - 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=467146 
IAccessibleText::caretOffset should return -1 if the system caret is not 
currently with in that particular object - 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448744

Other Mozilla issues 
The Mozilla spec for the language attribute refers to IETF RFC 1766 not 
IETF RFC 3066 (which obsoletes 1766). The Mozilla spec probably needs to 
be changed. 
In the Mozilla spec, font-weight has values of bolder, lighter, and 
inherit while IA2 doesn't. These probably need to be removed from the 
Mozilla spec. 
auto-generated and writing-mode aren't documented.  You mentioned there 
were bugs opened for this but I couldn't find the bug numbers.

IA2 issues 
text-position with no offset uses the term "baseline" vs 0. It looks like 
IA2 should reference the CSS2 vertical-align spec, not the ODF spec. 
Do you want to change the name of this attribute to vertical-align? 
I propose the value list contain only baseline, sub, and super and not the 
rest (top, text-top, middle, bottom, text-bottom, <percentage>, <length>, 
inherit).  I don't think an end user will care about the nuances of 
exactly how far above or below the baseline the text is. 
I propose we drop the existing second parameter in the IA2 spec which 
specifies the size of the font of the sub/subscript.  That can be covered 
via the font-size attribute. 
The default can be baseline.  (It was 0%.)

Other comments 
In the Mozilla spec, many of the attributes (like font-family, font-style, 
and font-size) refer to CSS 1, 2.1, and 3 while IA2 only refers to CSS 2. 
I'd prefer to keep the IA2 spec referencing CSS2 because 2.1 and 3 are not 
at Recommendation state yet (as far as I can tell).

I'd appreciate it if Marco could take a look at the two specs and see if 
he can spot any issues. 

Will, I don't know what to say about the Linux spec other than I know 
there is some pressure from Marco and Aaron to change it.  Are there any 
issues with using the IA2 spec?  Note that the IA2 spec is mostly based on 
CSS2, plus one case each of an attribute based on WAI-ARIA and XSL 1.1. 
However, there are several attributes based on ODF which are needed to 
provide access to ODF docs: 

text-line-through-mode, text-line-through-style, text-line-through-text, 
text-line-through-type, text-line-though-width, text-outline, text-shadow, 
text-underline-mode, text-underline-style, text-underline-type, 
text-underline-width 

I didn't mention text-position because, as mentioned above, I'm proposing 
that we refer to the CSS vertical-align spec instead of the ODF spec. 
(I've also asked the ODF office list why they are using a non-standard 
attribute when text-position is so close. 

Pete Brunet
                                                                         
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