[OpenJDK 2D-Dev] <Sound Dev> <Swing Dev> [9] Review Request: 8180326 Update the tables in java.desktop to be HTML-5 friendly

Philip Race philip.race at oracle.com
Mon Jun 5 01:12:28 UTC 2017


I don't remember anything left that I would object to .. and we'll push 
client changes
to dev this week anyway so it all sounds fine.

-phil.

On 6/4/17, 5:53 PM, Sergey Bylokhov wrote:
> If there are no objections I'll change the target ws from dev to client, to minimize the merges between some other javadoc fixes.
>
> ----- sergey.bylokhov at oracle.com wrote:
>
>> Hello.
>> Here is an updated version where most of the caption are visible.
>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8180326
>> Webrev can be found at:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~serb/8180326/webrev.02/
>> Specdiff:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~serb/8180326/specdiff.02/overview-summary.html
>>
>> You can use search to check the changes in some specific class:
>> Old docs:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~serb/8180326/api_old.02/overview-summary.html
>> New docs:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~serb/8180326/api.02/overview-summary.html
>>
>>
>> ----- jonathan.gibbons at oracle.com wrote:
>>
>>> Phil,
>>>
>>> I have no evidence one way or the other whether screen readers pay
>>> attention
>>> to undisplayed or invisible captions. It seemed safest to assume
>> that
>>> they would
>>> read a visible caption, and that we should head in that general
>>> direction.
>>>
>>> -- Jon
>>>
>>>
>>> On 05/17/2017 11:58 AM, Phil Race wrote:
>>>> And PS I was not saying anything to contradict
>>>>> tables should not have a summary attribute and should have a
>>> caption.
>>>> However that the docs I read on the web did seem to imply that
>>>> summary was very much intended for ATs but it was not at all
>> clear
>>> this
>>>> is the point of caption. I'm sure they can read it, but I don't
>> get
>>>> how making
>>>> it visible matters to them so how it making it visible relates to
>>>> accessibility
>>>> requirements is not an obvious connection to me. So why do we
>> have
>>>> to make it visible for ATs ?
>>>>
>>>> -phil.
>>>>
>>>> On 05/17/2017 11:54 AM, Phil Race wrote:
>>>>> I will leave the decision on whether to do that now up to Sergey
>>>>> although
>>>>> it seems all he has to do here is remove "invisible".
>>>>> Many of the "summary" ones had wrong or misleading text but they
>>>>> seem to have been all fixed.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd want to see what the new HTML looks like with a visible
>> title
>>> of
>>>>> course ..
>>>>>
>>>>> -phil.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 05/17/2017 11:52 AM, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
>>>>>> Phil,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The bottom line is that in the JDK docs, tables should not have
>> a
>>>>>> summary attribute and should have a caption. This comes down to
>>>>>> accessibility requirements, where we are slowly raising the bar
>> on
>>>>>> our docs, to be in accordance with Oracle's guidelines.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hiding the caption (style="display:none") is an interim measure
>> we
>>>>>> have been using during the HTML 5 updates, especially in cases
>>> where
>>>>>> the person doing the markup changes did not know enough to
>> create
>>> an
>>>>>> appropriate caption that should be displayed. In time, we should
>>>>>> locate and update all table captions (in our standard docs
>> bundle)
>>>>>> that are not being displayed such that the text is both
>>> appropriate
>>>>>> and visible. If you guys want to do that as part of this
>> update,
>>> go
>>>>>> ahead. FWIW, that is what we did for the java.xml module in the
>>> jaxp
>>>>>> repo ... pretty much all tables there now have a reasonable,
>>> visible
>>>>>> caption.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -- Jon
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 05/17/2017 11:19 AM, Phil Race wrote:
>>>>>>> I am not sure we are using the summary in a way that makes it
>>>>>>> worthwhile.
>>>>>>> As you noted in the other mail
>>>>>>> "The summary attribute was used to give a more descriptive
>> value
>>>>>>> of the contents of the table.   A caption is more like a
>> title"
>>>>>>> The values I see are more like a title and as you say that is
>> not
>>>>>>> the idea. See the example here
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/H73.html
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Caption sounds like a title so it might actually be more
>>>>>>> appropriate than summary
>>>>>>> for the text we have except that its not clear why we'd want
>> it
>>> to
>>>>>>> be visible when we were fine without.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> But being there and invisible may be pointless unless screen
>>>>>>> readers look for it even if invisible.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> But if its not doing any harm I guess we can leave it as
>>> proposed
>>>>>>> I still need to look at the rest of the changes.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -phil.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 05/12/2017 05:11 PM, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
>>>>>>>> Sergey,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> FWIW, the invisible caption should be regarded as a temporary
>>>>>>>> solution, until content authors can review/update the text of
>>> the
>>>>>>>> caption and make it visible.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The general guideline in this conversion work has been to
>> avoid
>>>>>>>> changing the visible text of the specification, and captions
>>> fall
>>>>>>>> into a grey area of whether the text is significant/normative
>> or
>>>>>>>> not.  Hence the temporary step to make them not displayed for
>>> now.
>>>>>>>> -- Jon
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 05/12/2017 05:00 PM, Sergey Bylokhov wrote:
>>>>>>>>> The "summary" is unsupported by the HTML5 and we replace it
>> by
>>>>>>>>> invisible caption.
>>>>>>>>> These new styles are located in the stylesheet.css in the
>> root
>>> of
>>>>>>>>> the JavaDoc api folder, so I assume these styles should be
>> used
>>>>>>>>> by others as well.
>>>>>>>>> They were added by this fix:
>>>>>>>>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8179479
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> ----- philip.race at oracle.com wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Does this in any way match the rest of the docs ? Or is
>>> everyone
>>>>>>>>>> left
>>>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>>>> style things how they want.
>>>>>>>>>> I thought (?) maybe there is to be some javadoc tool
>> support
>>> for
>>>>>>>>>> CSS
>>>>>>>>>> styles.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Also why are all the table summaries removed ?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> -phil.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On 5/12/17, 4:52 PM, Sergey Bylokhov wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> This is because I use the same style for most of the
>> tables
>>>>>>>>>> 'class="striped"', which apply the same/unified style for
>>>>>>>>>> all(most) of
>>>>>>>>>> our tables.
>>>>>>>>>>> Also this is because I removed 'inlined' styles, like
>> here:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~serb/8180326/api_old.01/java/awt/font/TextAttribute.html
>>>>>>>>>>> ----- philip.race at oracle.com wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Adding 2d-dev because a number of the files are 2D.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> What is the general reason for changing the appearance of
>>> the
>>>>>>>>>> tables?
>>>>>>>>>>>> -phil.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> On 5/12/17, 4:25 PM, Sergey Bylokhov wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Please review the fix for jdk9-dev.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> This fix is a part of the effort to make all javadoc in
>>> jdk9 be
>>>>>>>>>>>> compatible to HTML5.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> It covers all errors which are reported by the javadoc
>>> tool
>>>>>>>>>> during
>>>>>>>>>>>> the build of jdk for java.desktop module.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8180326
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Webrev can be found at:
>>>>>>>>>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~serb/8180326/webrev.01
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Note that an appearance of some tables were changed
>> after
>>> the
>>>>>>>>>> fix:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Before:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~serb/8180326/api_old.01/java/awt/font/TextAttribute.html
>>>>>>>>>>>>> After:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~serb/8180326/api.01/java/awt/font/TextAttribute.html
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Before:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~serb/8180326/api_old.01/javax/sound/sampled/AudioSystem.html
>>>>>>>>>>>>> After :
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~serb/8180326/api.01/javax/sound/sampled/AudioSystem.html
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Before:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~serb/8180326/api_old.01/javax/sound/sampled/AudioPermission.html
>>>>>>>>>>>>> After:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~serb/8180326/api.01/javax/sound/sampled/AudioPermission.html


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