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Re: 48-Hour Consensus Call: InstateLongdesc CP Update

From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 01:04:52 +0200
To: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
Cc: John Foliot <john@foliot.ca>, Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
Message-ID: <20120918010452751707.2cc885a1@xn--mlform-iua.no> 
Silvia Pfeiffer, Tue, 18 Sep 2012 08:49:43 +1000:
> For a developer to come up with a solution to this is almost
> impossible, when even accessibility tools haven't come up with a good
> solution. They look at it, see the problem, weight up how important it
> is in comparison to other work they need to do and move on. Can you
> blame them?
> 
> If we re-introduce it into HTML5, we need to be quite clear about how
> this has to be implemented. Otherwise we will fall into the same trap
> again.

As you (I think) know, the change proposal describes *ways*. Do yo 
meant that it should only describe a single way?
-- 
Leif Halvard Silli
Received on Monday, 17 September 2012 23:05:24 GMT

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