Hi Bert,
You wrote:
Or what about simple normal every-day headings?
We can go up to 6 levels deep with them...
I guess it all depends on the application.
I think you nailed it--in a sense, **any** linear
sequence is a "list" whether or not clarity can
be helped by using markup to call out a
Bert, Patrick and all.
The issue of semantics, presentation and accessibility for
legislation is a really good example of the genuine social importance
of what people like members of WSG do.
The law is central to our society. We probably all know the maxim
"ignorance of the law is no defenc
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 10:10 +0100, Patrick Lauke wrote:
> I think that this (particularly the "legal document" case) is a
> scenario in which we have to recognise that there *is* no widely supported
> semantic equivalent.
I'd agree with this statement, however, in terms of structuring your
content
Bert,
Or what about simple normal every-day headings? We can go up to 6
levels deep with them...
I guess it all depends on the application.
I think using headings is a very good suggestion.
In legislation, the numbered entries we are talking about are indeed
headings for sections, sub s
> Bert Doorn
> I don't have access to jaws or the like, but what about
> semantics? Is it an unordered list made to look like an ordered
> list, or an ordered list using the wrong element?
I seem to remember, from my days with JAWS 4, that it would be read
out as "List with 3 itemsbullet;
Paul Novitski wrote:
What about using ULs in this case? (That's how I originally marked up
my example; should have left it like that!) How would a screen-reader
read this:
1 - Aardvark
2 - Banshee
3 - Cicada
I don't have acc
At 12:54 AM 6/15/2005, Bert Doorn wrote:
G'day
Paul Novitski wrote:
I would argue that this is perfectly good markup & styling:
1 - Aardvark
2 - Banshee
3 - Cicada
and then:
ol li
{
list-style-type
G'day
Paul Novitski wrote:
I would argue that this is perfectly good markup & styling:
1 - Aardvark
2 - Banshee
3 - Cicada
and then:
ol li
{
list-style-type: none;
}
Question... How
At 05:05 PM 6/14/2005, Richard Czeiger wrote:
Wondering how we can get CSS to specifity the spearator used in ordered
lists (ie: the thing between the list item number and the value of the
list item). For example...
1.
a)
1 -
a:
I would argue that this is perfectly g
On 15 Jun 2005, at 11:11 am, Derek Featherstone wrote:
As has already been said, simply choosing the right DOCTYPE for the
job may
not be enough, though, given that we still don't really know to what
degree
punctuation matters.
I've been busy putting a law text on a web page (alongside some
On Tuesday, June 14, 2005 9:56 PM, Terrence Wood wrote:
> I completely agree, and have been involved in translating legislation
> into a web format. It's a shame that the start attribute has been
> deprecated in XHTML (last I looked).
Well, there is always HTML 4.01 for these cases (legislation, s
On 15 Jun 2005, at 12:19 PM, John Allsopp wrote:
numbering is a very important part of the content of some documents
(particularly legislation) and so should be in the content of the HTML
I completely agree, and have been involved in translating legislation
into a web format. It's a shame that
> Wondering how we can get CSS to specifity the spearator used in ordered
> lists (ie: the thing between the list item number and the value of the list
> item). For example...
As someone has already mentioned,
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/generate.html#counters will eventually
be the way to do t
I need this ability to replicate government legislation and
apparently it has to be an EXACT duplicate. As far as I can tell,
this isn't in the spec. Has anyone found a solution? Some fancy CSS
hack or DOM scripting that will get around this?
If that "EXACT" is truly non-negotiable, as in, it
Thanks, Patrick.
John reminded me of the counters. I'd forgotten about them because of their
total lack of support...
C'est la guerre :o)
Richard
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From: "Patrick H. Lauke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Richard Czeiger wrote:
Wondering how we can get CSS to specifity the spearator used in ordered
lists
As far as I can tell, you should be able to define that with the styles
provided for automatic numbering and lists in CSS 2.1
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/generate.html#counters
(specifically,
Richard,
Wondering how we can get CSS to specifity the spearator used in
ordered lists (ie: the thing between the list item number and the
value of the list item). For example...
1.
a)
1 -
a:
I need this ability to replicate government legislation and
apparently
Hi all,
Wondering how we can get CSS to specifity the spearator used in ordered
lists (ie: the thing between the list item number and the value of the list
item). For example...
1.
a)
1 -
a:
I need this ability to replicate government legislation and apparently
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