Re: head@profile: another dropped attribute

Murray Maloney wrote:

> Frankly, your example makes us all second-class citizens, and does not harm
> the visually-impaired any more than the sighted. That is, knowledge that
> a span of text is in a different color than the rest of the text only 
> tells me that that text is in a different color. Unless there is a key, I don't 
> know anything more about that colored text than the next guy -- sighted or not. No 
> discrimination.
> No harm, no foul.

You (if you are sighted) can draw inferences from
a stretch of text being differently coloured; someone
who cannot see the text, and whose UA/AT does nothing
special with the combination <font color="...> is
denied even the possibility of drawing a meaningful
inference.

Philip TAYLOR