Re: HTML Action Item 54 - ...draft text for HTML 5 spec to require producers/authors to include @alt on img elements.

dear boris,

>  I feel that it would help me, as an implementor, to understand the reasons
> for the WCAG 2.0 decisions, not just read the final product...

as i just wrote in the email you quoted, I have provided in previous
emails a number of examples of  some of the different ways  users
access and AT  provide access to content, which is why i consider that
the provision of alt in this case is reasonable and why i support eh
WCAG 2.0 recommendations.

I was not directly involved in the writing or development of  WCAG 2,
although i did provide feedback during public comment, so I cannot
provide an insight into the minds of the authors., as i said to mujeic
corresponding with the WCAG working group will be the route to get the
insight you desire.

see ya!


2008/5/12 Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>:
> Steven Faulkner wrote:
>
> > i am not going to bother responding to the the rest of your inflamatory
> guff.
> >
>
>  I would actually rather like to see a response to this:
>
>
>
> >
> > >  So wait. Do you actually understand the logic behind WCAG 2.0 on this
> or
> > > other points? If so, then refusing the explain the logic seems like a
> > > needless lack of collegiality. If not, does that mean you have just
> taken
> > > WCAG 2.0 on faith and applied it without understanding the underlying
> logic?
> > > If that is the case, then I do not understand how your proposal can be
> > > meaningfully discussed.
> > >
> >
>
>  I feel that it would help me, as an implementor, to understand the reasons
> for the WCAG 2.0 decisions, not just read the final product...
>
>  -Boris
>
>



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with regards

Steve Faulkner
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Director - Web Accessibility Tools Consortium

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Received on Monday, 12 May 2008 19:42:37 UTC