RFR (JDK11/doc-only) 8199176: Accessibility issues in java.base docs

[Roger Riggs]

Hi Joe,

Looks fine.

(I would be in favor of a future solution that correctly generated/fixed 
up the appropriate headers;
Manual editing and corrections are an unnecessary overhead.)

Thanks, Roger

On 3/21/2018 6:47 PM, Joe Wang wrote:
> They look ok. They actually go better with the package name when they 
> are just 1 level down instead of 2, that is, <h2> rather than <h3> for 
> the titles when the package name is <h1>. If we don't want the strong 
> emphasis on the titles, we could lower the package name generated by 
> javadoc to <h2> instead of <h1>. Then we could keep the <h3>s.
>
> Most of the package-info pages have already used <h2> for titles, 
> which is why we're fixing only a handful of them here. Consider:
>
> *Currently using <h2>:*
> https://docs.oracle.com/javase/10/docs/api//java/io/package-summary.html
> https://docs.oracle.com/javase/10/docs/api//java/lang/invoke/package-summary.html 
>
>
> In the later page, it actually started with <h1> :
>  <h1><a id="jvm_mods"></a>Summary of relevant Java Virtual Machine 
> changes</h1>
>
> *Currently using <h3>:*
> https://docs.oracle.com/javase/10/docs/api//javax/xml/transform/package-summary.html 
>
>
> -Joe
>
>
> On 3/21/2018 2:39 PM, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 3/21/18 2:28 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
>>> On 21/03/2018 19:08, Joe Wang wrote:
>>>> :
>>>>
>>>> *Item 3*: Heading leavels should only increase by one
>>>>     This is due to the javadoc tool generates a header with an 
>>>> addition of headings, in this particular case, <h1>. The fix for 
>>>> this particular case is to replace the <h3>s with <h2>.
>>> I assume this has the effect of increasing the size of the headings. 
>>> Does it look okay? I assume many of these usages of h3 choose that 
>>> to avoid heading in very large font.
>>>
>>> -Alan
>>
>> I know accessibility fixes are important, but usability is important 
>> too.  The uses of h3 were previously consistent across different pages.
>>
>> We could remediate the problem either by figuring a design that has 
>> javadoc put a similar set of headers on every page (thus rendering 
>> this changeset unnecessary) or else changing the stylesheet so that 
>> <h2> on a package-summary page looks the same as <h3> on a class page 
>> (which sounds icky, even as I type it.)
>>
>> -- Jon
>>
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