To all, Should we drop "normal" and "bold" from the list and just have
numbers from 100 to 900, modulo 100?

Alexander Surkov wrote:
> Hi, Pete.
>
> I would say let's leave this for AT because otherwise we won't follow
> rule "expose what users see". AT could map numbers to words like
> "normal", "bold", "very very bold". Though practice shows we will
> expose "400" and "600" as rule.
>
> Alex.
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Pete Brunet <[email protected]> wrote:
>   
>> Alex, What is important is what the end user sees.  It sounds like the FF
>> user will only see normal and bold so that's what FF should expose.
>>
>> This brings up a second question though.  How valuable is it for an end user
>> to hear numbers from 100 through 900?  Should we say that 500 and below is
>> normal and 600 and above is bold?  Or should we leave that to the AT?
>>
>> Pete
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>> Alexander Surkov wrote:
>>
>> Hi.
>>
>> The text attributes specification
>> (http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Accessibility/IAccessible2/TextAttributes
>> )
>> doesn't say explicitly how the font-weight text attribute value is
>> computed. There are two ways.
>>
>> 1) Value is exactly what web page author specified, i.e. it is CSS 2.1
>> value casted to integer
>> 2) Value is one of weight values available for the given font
>> installed on the given operation system
>>
>> For example, I can see default fonts used in Firefox have two weights
>> only (normal=400 and bold=700). Every another font weight from CSS 2.1
>> values list is mapped to these available values.  So in this case the
>> value of text attribute exposed on accessible for the html:p
>>
>> <p style="font-weight: 100;">hello</p>
>>
>> should be 100 or 400?
>>
>> Alex.
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