[css2] Removed commented text, added list of accessibility features

ianbjacobs · ianbjacobs · commit 86db38cb89e1 · 1998-05-06T02:22:00.000Z
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diff --git a/css2/intro.src b/css2/intro.src
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
 <html lang="en">
-<!-- $Id: intro.src,v 2.29 1998-04-30 17:27:09 howcome Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Id: intro.src,v 2.30 1998-05-06 02:22:00 ijacobs Exp $ -->
 <HEAD>
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
 <TITLE>Introduction to CSS2</TITLE>
@@ -170,10 +170,6 @@ to its surroundings. The "em" unit refers to the font size of the
 element. In this case the result is that the margins around the BODY
 element are three times wider than the font size.
 
-
-
-<!-- Add image, printing, info, positioning, fonts -->
-
 <H2>A brief CSS2 tutorial for XML</H2>
 
 <P>CSS can be used with any structured document format, for example
@@ -206,11 +202,9 @@ INSTRUMENT { display: inline }
 ARTICLE, HEADLINE, AUTHOR, PARA { display: block }
 </PRE>
 
-<P>The first rule declares INSTRUMENT to be inline <!--(though this rule
-is not strictly necessary, because 'inline' is the default),[hmm,
-perhaps initial value, but it's anyway too advanced, HWL]--> and the
-second rule, with its comma-separated list of selectors, declares all
-the other elements to be block-level.
+<P>The first rule declares INSTRUMENT to be inline and the second
+rule, with its comma-separated list of selectors, declares all the
+other elements to be block-level.
 
 <P>One proposal for linking a style sheet to an XML document is to use
 a processing instruction:
@@ -315,18 +309,6 @@ during this phase. In particular, content generated due to style
 sheets is not fed back to the document language processor (e.g., for
 reparsing).
 
-<!-- Is the next statement still true? If so, it should probably
-     be made specific and moved to visudet.src -->
-
-<!-- 
-<P>If an element A is an ancestor of an element D, all formatting
-objects generated for A must be above the formatting objects
-rendered for D in the tree of formatting objects. For box
-and page box formatting objects, this implies that, to 
-find a containing box for an element, a user agent need only search
-upward in the tree of rendering objects (not left, right, or down).
--->
-
 <li>Transfer the formatting structure to the target medium (e.g., print
 the results, display them on the screen, render them as speech,
 etc.).
@@ -466,25 +448,42 @@ class="propinst-color">'color'</span> property.</P>
 </LI>
 
 <LI>
-<P><STRONG>Accessibility</STRONG>. CSS will
-increase accessibility to Web documents, not just for people with
-disabilities, but for everybody, and even for robots. By retaining
-textual information in text form, robots and human users alike will
-have more options for digesting the content. Users can provide their
-personal style sheets if author-suggested style sheets hinder
-accessibility. The cascading mechanism combines and selects from
-different style sheets.</P>
-
-<!-- Review this text... -IJ -->
-
-<div class="note"><P> 
-<em><strong>Note.</strong> For more information
+<P><STRONG>Accessibility</STRONG>. CSS has several
+features designed to 
+make the Web more accessible to users with disabilities:</p>
+
+<UL>
+<li>Improved media support, including media groups and the 
+braille, embossed, and tty media types.
+<LI>The semantics of <tt>!important</tt> rules mean
+that "the user can always win" in the cascade. This allows
+users with particular needs (large fonts, color combinations,
+etc.) to override the author's styles.
+<li>The new 'inherit' value for all properties
+improves cascading "generality". For instance:
+<PRE class="css-example">
+   BODY { font-size: 12pt } 
+   P { font-size: inherit }
+</PRE>
+<LI>The aural properties give control over voice and audio output.
+<LI>Access to alternative content through attribute
+selectors, the 'attr()' function,
+and the 'content' property.
+<LI>Counters and section/paragraph numbering. These allow
+users with braille/tty devices an alternative to
+outlines. <!-- What does this mean? -->
+<LI>Generated content.
+</UL>
+
+<P>Furthermore, by allowing designers to add style to text rather than
+requiring them to use images, CSS will allow human users and robots
+alike to reap more information from pages.
+</P>
+
+<div class="note"><P> <em><strong>Note.</strong> For more information
 about designing accessible documents using CSS and HTML, please
 consult [[-WAIGUIDE]].</em>
 </div>
-
-</LI>
-
 </UL>
 
 
