- From: Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>
- Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:45:54 +0100
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Cc: James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>, Al Gilman <alfred.s.gilman@ieee.org>, Chris Wilson <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>, W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>, public-html@w3.org, Gez Lemon <gez.lemon@gmail.com>
Henri Sivonen wrote: > For the use cases your clients have, would it be necessary to > use/recommend headers/id if browsers implemented the Smart Headers > algorithm Ben mentioned and reported those associations to AT? I don't know yet. I am not sure that it is the right solution. For the record, if a new authoring method works (i.e is well, supported, easy to author/understand etc) I have no problem recommending it. With this issue I am very concerned with legacy use but I do concede that if a solution is semantically superior at some stage a clear break must be made in favour of it. But this is not a black and white issue, there are many shades of grey. For example, support by AT for @scope is practically non-existent. Anecdotally, it seems to me that many tables that use @scope just happen to coincide in their design to how the screen readers heuristic evaluation understands the content pattern, rather than because @scope had been used to mark up the content. So I guess, it doesn't pay to think in terms of absolutes. Cheers Josh
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