Review Request : 7198274 - RFE : Javadoc Accessibility : Use CSS styles rather than or tags

[jayashree viswanathan]

On 31-01-2013 9:48 PM, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
> On 01/31/2013 07:52 AM, jayashree viswanathan wrote:
>> On 05-11-2012 1:53 PM, jayashree viswanathan wrote:
>>> Hi Jon,
>>>
>>> I have made the changeset based on the possible latest TL level I 
>>> see that there are more changes happening in this area  .
>>> Please find the changeset for the bug 7198274 . Requesting you to 
>>> please review the same .
>>>
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jviswana/7198274/
>>>
>>> Thanks and Regards,
>>> Jayashree V
>>>
>>>
>> Hi Jon,
>>
>> Greetings!  Can you please let me know if you got any chance to look 
>> through the changeset for this RFE .
>>
>> Thanks and Regards,
>> Jayashree Viswanathan
>>
>
> Without reviewing your change, I would take issue with the 
> accessibility tools that treat inline style elements as headers. I 
> will update the issue in JIRA.
>
> As I understand it, it is against WCAG to use styles to simulate 
> headers, so can you please provide a reference that justifies that 
> <strong> and <i> should be interpreted as headers.  In particular, 
> what if these inline elements are embedded within a larger block 
> element, such as a paragraph?
>
> -- Jon
>
Hi Jon ,

Agree with you on that we should not use styles to simulate headers .  
Accessibility test tools should not interpret inline <strong> tags in a 
paragraph as a header and show that as a possible violation. People do 
not put headers inside paragraphs. However, according to G140 and F2 
rules, it is better to use CSS for font styling that to use styling tags.

So here we are simply trying to move font styling into the CSS 
(according 
tohttp://www.w3.org/TR/2012/NOTE-WCAG20-TECHS-20120103/F2.html 
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/NOTE-WCAG20-TECHS-20120103/F2.html> and 
*http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/NOTE-WCAG20-TECHS-20120103/G140*) .

Thanks and Regards,
Jayashree Viswanathan
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/javadoc-dev/attachments/20130208/9f130459/attachment.html