> On Behalf Of Mike at Green-Beast.com > > What about marking up "*" used in forms with ABBR elements? > > In your example you left the text instruction. > > > <p>Fields marked with * (asterisk) are required.</p> > Thus I'd say further treatment is unnecessary. And if you change that > by > removing the text instruction, there's no guarantee the user will get > the > expansion. In fact, if what I understand is correct in that most screen > reader users don't expland abbreviations, they would only get > "asterisk" > spoken to them. They might wonder what its significance is.
Hi Mike, That's not what I understood from a recent discussion, I think they'd have to listen to every expansion. Also, if I left the instruction and provide expansion at the same time it is because a user could get to the form control through an accesskey, thus skipping that paragraph. And if I went with the expansion using "title" only (no plain text) then sighted keyboard users would get nothing. As a side note, I still do *not* understand why it is not *required* to do the expansion in plain text... As a side note #2, I listened to Joe Clark yesterday and I believe he said we should not even bother! > As an aside, if something of this sort was a viable solution, I would > lean > towards using the defining instance element, DFN, to mark this up. > > <dfn title="Require field">*</dfn> > > But the same issue applies to DFN as it pertains to the expansion of > titles -- I think. > > That's my two cents, anyway. I'll be interested in what others have to > say > about this. I don't think that would work. The specs say: "The dfn element contains the defining instance of the enclosed term." http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/mod-text.html#sec_9.4. So you could not mark it up like this, it would have to be within the text that defines it. At least that's how I understand it. --- Regards, Thierry | www.TJKDesign.com ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
