Thanks for the help Hussein. Since it's open source with no support, I understand and respect your decisions. I suppose the term bug is relative if you're not using a screen reader, but I urge you all to think about it in the future. One of our usability/designers really nailed us on this issue. Semantically it's definitely a bug. divs are used for style, not to indicate a paragraph of meaningful text.
Thanks, Weldon ________________________________________ From: Hussein Shafie [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 06:37 To: Sams, Weldon Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ditac] Paragraphs and related links bug On 01/17/2013 09:13 PM, Sams, Weldon wrote: > > I sent a request earlier asking if there's a way to prevent paragraphs > from being defined as <div class="p"> and instead <p>, but it was > rejected as not being a bug report. > > Looking back, this may be a bug if you consider screen readers. A screen > reader will not know that <div class="p"> is really a paragraph, and > likewise the fake bulleted lists generated from related links - they > should be real un-ordered lists for screen readers. > > See below the changes I made. > I'm sorry but I don't agree with you. I confirm that there is no bug here: The DITA p element may contain elements such as ul, pre, ol, note, etc, Therefore translating a DITA p element (which may contain ``blocks''; see http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.2/os/spec/langref/p.html) to an XHTML p element (which may not contain ``blocks''; see http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/text.html#edef-P) would be a bug. What you request could be a screen-reader-friendly *option* which would be turned off by default. In fact, this was more or less the meaning of your initial email (rejected by the moderator of [email protected] because it looked more like a newbie support request than a RFE.) We do not plan to implement, test and document such screen-reader-friendly option because it is not of general use. Moreover, we are not organized to accept patches contributed by third-part developers. Sorry for that. This being said, XMLmind DITA Converter (ditac) is a free, open source software, and you are very welcome to modify it to adapt it to your needs. Apparently, you had not much problems doing that. Congratulations.
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