We aren't going to expose "normal" and "bold" strings in Firefox. I would vote to drop them. At least it should be easier for AT to deal with list of allowed values.
Alex. On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Pete Brunet <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- > Pete Brunet > > a11ysoft - Accessibility Architecture and Development > (512) 238-6967 > pete @ a11ysoft.com > http://www.a11ysoft.com/about/ > http://www.linkedin.com/in/petebrunet > Ionosphere: WS4G > > 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. > _______________________________________________ > Accessibility-ia2 mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/accessibility-ia2 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Accessibility-ia2 mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/accessibility-ia2 > > > > > > > -- > Pete Brunet > > a11ysoft - Accessibility Architecture and Development > (512) 238-6967 > pete @ a11ysoft.com > http://www.a11ysoft.com/about/ > http://www.linkedin.com/in/petebrunet > Ionosphere: WS4G > > _______________________________________________ > Accessibility-ia2 mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/accessibility-ia2 > > _______________________________________________ Accessibility-ia2 mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/accessibility-ia2
