- From: Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>
- Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 07:50:27 +0100
- To: John Foliot <john@foliot.ca>
- CC: 'Silvia Pfeiffer' <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>, 'Steve Faulkner' <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, 'HTML Accessibility Task Force' <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
John Foliot wrote: > Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: >> The thing is: if you read the HTML4 spec, there really is nothing >> stated about how the UA is supposed to expose it. >> http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/objects.html#h-13.2 >> >> >> 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. >> > > The problem there Silvia is that we are constantly being told that HTML5 > does not prescribe UI, that is the role of the Browser Vendors. Yet, as you > correctly note, until we have a standardized way of doing this, nobody is > going to do anything. > > Catch 22. Right! See my previous post for my 2 cents (if of interest) but +1 to John. I think if we resolve this (at least for a11y stuff) then that would be progress! Cheers Josh
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