- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 10:27:10 +0200
- To: "Henri Sivonen" <hsivonen@iki.fi>, "Denis Boudreau" <dboudreau@webconforme.com> (WebConforme)
- Cc: "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On Wed, 02 May 2007 10:15:19 +0200, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi> wrote: >> Accessibility experts, among others are flipping out. Taking out >> headers and summary? I mean come on... > > It would help if the accessibility experts explained how existing AT > make use of headers and summary (including documenting the processing > models for headers used by real AT). Once it has been established how > existing AT supports these features, it would be helpful to establish > how authors use them. Indeed. At least summary= is often abused by authors: "Table used for layout", "Grid of 3 by 2 cells", etc. Given how determining cell headers is defined I wonder about use cases for headers=. > (Some things may seem obvious to accessibility experts. They may not > seem obvious to other people. The accessibility experts need to explain > to others how this stuff is really used. Just saying that it is needed > for accessibility and expecting everyone to nod in agreement because > accessibility is good is not sufficient when we need to spec processing > models.) -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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