apologies for the inadvertant premature sending of my reply to david's post on IA2_ROLE_NOTE -- the perils of using a forms based web mail client to compose email, where each space or enter has a 25 percent chance of being interpretted as a "submit form" command
aloha, david! actually, i'd argue that the problem is that the concept "note" is insufficient for all use cases: 1. there needs to be a means to distinguish between explanatory notes and referential notes, both of which are be "embedded note[s] which [are] not visible until activated" 2. there needs to be a means to convey within semantically demarcated quoted text, that a string of text added to contextualize the quote is not part of the original quote, but disambiguation text: <q>He [Robert E. Lee] was hamstrung by his [J.E.B. Stuart's] absence efrom the battlefield for the first two days of fighting, depriving him [Lee] of the up-to-date intelligence the calvary ordinarily provided.</q> 3. "A section that provides complementary information" is what aria-role="complementary" does, and its closest analogue in HTML5 is the ASIDE element http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/sections.html#the-aside-element which is also a container for content that enhances the main content of the page, but which skipping does NOT compromise the integrity of the main content, such as sidebars and the media-wiki default DIV wrapper what is there to satisfy 1, 2 or 3? IA2_ROLE_NOTE can't be all there is -- can it? gregory. ---------------------------------------------------------------- CONSERVATIVE, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. -- Ambrose Bierce, _The Devil's Dictionary_ ---------------------------------------------------------------- Gregory J. Rosmaita, [email protected] Camera Obscura: http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/index.html ---------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Original Message ----------- From: David Bolter <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 13:42:40 -0500 Subject: [Accessibility-ia2] IA2_ROLE_NOTE > Hi. > > I think this is the current description of the note role: > "An embedded note which is not visible until activated" > > I wonder if we could change it to: > "A section that provides complementary information" > > This would make it reusable for things like html:aside elements > and aria role="note". Thoughts? > > Cheers, > David > _______________________________________________ > Accessibility-ia2 mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.linux- > foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/accessibility-ia2 ------- End of Original Message ------- _______________________________________________ Accessibility-ia2 mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/accessibility-ia2
