- From: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>
- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 23:20:27 -0400
- To: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>
- Cc: Cynthia Shelly <cyns@microsoft.com>, Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>, John Foliot <john@foliot.ca>, Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>, Judy Brewer <jbrewer@w3.org>, "david100@sympatico.ca" <david100@sympatico.ca>, Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>, James Nurthen <james.nurthen@oracle.com>, Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>, "Jonas Sicking (jonas@sicking.cc)" <jonas@sicking.cc>
Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis writes: > > Saying "The text children of the element will be flattened to a > string" is a direct contradiction of the ARIA specification which > takes account of various elements and attributes in the calculation of > the accessible name and description. > > Markup is a "string" so "string" is the wrong word to use here: > Pish posh. This argument is simply sophistry. Markup may use the same chars, but I suspect all of us understand "string" in this context. "String" has been used the way this CP is using it for decades. And you were on such a long string of great comments! Nevertheless, we needn't string you up over this loose one. Janina -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina@asterisk.rednote.net Chair, Open Accessibility janina@a11y.org Linux Foundation http://a11y.org Chair, Protocols & Formats Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/wai/pf World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
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