Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote:
> On 5/28/07, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote:
>>
>> > On 5/27/07, Maciej Stachowiak <mjsapple.com> wrote:
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> >> I don't think this is a very natural use
of the <q> element. A
>> >> thumbnail isn't really like a quote of a
prose fragment. Consider
>> >> that you would never put a thumbnail in
quotation marks.
>> >
>> > True... but you don't have to have the
<q> elements put quotes around
>> > the thumbnail.
[snip]
>> Hmm. I think Maciej does have a strong point about
interoperability
>> here. Removing the quotation punctuation with CSS
does not help those
>> with user-designated styles or UAs that ignore such
CSS: e.g. text
>> browsers and screen readers. The question to ask
yourself is: if you
>> could not remove the quotation punctuation and
layout, would you still
>> use <q> and <blockquote>? If a screen
reader read (for example):
>
> A text browser can NOT see the graphical thumbnail
anyways. It will
> see the "alt" text of the thumbnail. And
putting the "alt" text in
> quotes seems OK with me.
>
> (It's only the putting the graphical thumbnail in
quotes that seems wrong.)
Ah. Okay, I hadn't understood that's what you were saying. I
think
putting the thumbnail alternative text in quotation
punctuation is
potentially problematic unless the alternative text is
actually a
quotation from the video's dialogue.
--
Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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