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Hi. Thought I'd float this on this list to see what people think. On the issue of accesibility, and just as importantly addressing other media presentation in light of its own merit, I as I've agued previously prefer the idea of keeping seperate presentation objects withing their own domain, largely due to considerations of design clarity, factoring, utility and extensibility. For this reason I would prefer to see for instance Aural Presentation Objects (APOs) designed as objects in their own right, that can be used along side or in their own stylesheet to address aural presentations. The idea was however raised of mapping XFOs to an accesibility standard, and I thought might this not be useful in general for XFOs to be able to do... <xsl:block map="apo:speech"> ... </xsl:block> ...in this way support for other output could be given without getting into overly verbose stylesheets, while those who want to incorporate other presentation objects as part of design (where arual and written presentation may vary to address different needs) could still be catered for. You see, I believe that designers should address arual presentation as a design in and of itself (I intend to), simply degrading I believe to be the lazy option, and doesn't truly address the needs of the audience. Aural presentation is not likely to be the sme as the written. Allowing mapping addresses this laziness while not affecting those who want versatility of design. It might also be possible to produce a schema for default mapping in XSL, rather than just inline mapping.... <xsl:map object="xsl:block" to="apo:speech"> .... </xsl:map> ...or... <xsl:map object="xsl:block" to="html:div"> ... </xsl:map> These ideas are not carefuly considered, and I'm sure better more flexible semantics could be produced, and the issue does get thorny when one considers mapping attributes, I just thought I'd introduce the idea for discussion. Cheers Guy. XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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