[Bug 14937] Replace poor coding example for figure with multiple images

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=14937

steve faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED
         Resolution|WONTFIX                     |

--- Comment #2 from steve faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> 2011-12-08 07:40:48 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #1)
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> Status: Rejected
> Change Description: no spec change
> Rationale: This isn't an antipattern. It is a best practice. If current ATs
> don't make it accessible, then I recommend approaching AT vendors and
> explaining to them that they're not properly exposing HTML semantics.

You obviously misunderstand, this issue has nothing to do with AT, your 'best
practice' is based on a fiction that the title attribute content is available
to all users via the browser, it is most evidently not. All browser vendors are
aware of the issue (http://markmail.org/message/udftstmjgis5bdiu), but have
chosen not to do anything about it (for the last ten years). When you have
convinced browser vendors (apple, google, opera and microsoft) to fix the
issue, i.e. keyboard and touch screen users can access the title attribute
content, then you can claim your anti-pattern as a best practice. Until that
point it does not deserve to be in the W3C HTML5 spec and its inclusion does a
disservice to a range of users.

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Received on Thursday, 8 December 2011 07:40:52 UTC