Re: [Proposal] Delete VisualText and ColorText conformance labels

Jim Ley wrote:
> "Ian B. Jacobs" <[email protected]>
> 
>>In the current document, a graphical user agent that renders
>>text can conform to UAAG 1.0 without stopping blinking or allowing
>>the user to change text size, font family, or text foreground and
>>background colors.
> 
> 
> I'm concerned about indication on how this is done, current
> implementations of disabling background/foregeound colours make it and
> CSS-P incompatible, to the extent where there is no ability to use CSS-P
> in that enviroment.   So whilst I support the idea (not being a member in
> good standing makes that pretty redundant I imagine anyway.) 

On the contrary, all shows of support welcome!

 > but I
> believe we need to highlight the issue that if you do it simplistically
> you also disable CSS-P, or you do it in a manner whereby CSS-P elements
> with a background also gain the users background colour.

Yes. Checkpoints 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3 require "global configuration"
(among other things). This means that one setting affects all 
reference text size (but other text e.g., headers may still be 
relatively larger), impose a single font family, and the user's 
preferred fg and bg colors for text. This would apply to content
that is in the normal CSS flow and also positioned elements.

> If you use IE5.5 or IE6 with "use own colours" on a a page with "popup
> menus"  such as http://www.rcslt.org/ you will see the problem when mouse
> overing the left hand menu (other implementations have similar problems
> but I'm not sure if the popup menu will degrade or not.)

Would it suffice to point this out in the Techniques document?

Thanks!

- Ian
> +1  In principle though.
> 
> Jim.
> 



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