- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:43:52 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Cc: Matt Morgan-May <mattmay@adobe.com>, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, David Poehlman <poehlman1@comcast.net>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, Robert J Burns <rob@robburns.com>, "Gregory J. Rosmaita" <oedipus@hicom.net>, Leif Halvard Silli <lhs@malform.no>, James Graham <jgraham@opera.com>, Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>, Steve Axthelm <steveax@pobox.com>, Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>, HTMLWG <public-html@w3.org>, "wai-xtech@w3.org" <wai-xtech@w3.org>, "wai-liaison@w3.org" <wai-liaison@w3.org>, "janina@rednote.net" <janina@rednote.net>, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, W3C WAI Protocols & Formats <w3c-wai-pf@w3.org>
On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Dan Connolly wrote: > > > > This needs to be stated as clearly as possible: @summary is not > > <caption>. There may be some overlap in the minds of HTML WG members, > > but my read is that no one on the PF side shares that opinion. (Please > > speak up if any of you disagree.) @summary serves a specific purpose: > > to offer a description of the visual and structural makeup of a table > > _specifically_ for the benefit of non-visual users. > > That's the 2nd time in this thread that I've seen someone take issue > with the problem statement/goals. (the other was Faulkner 24 Feb 2009 > 10:25:49 +0000). > > Ian, I have seen your responses regarding some of the proposed > solutions, but not these points about the problem statement. > > What do you think of the more constrained problem statement, addressing > "rendering to non-visual media such as speech and Braille"? I think that there is evidence (e.g. Steven's dataset) that shows that if we have a media-dependent feature for this, that users of other media will in some cases be disenfranchised. I did in fact respond to comments along these lines here: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Feb/0601.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Feb/0690.html As Maciej notes, having features intended for specific media and features that are not acessible to all users is contrary to our principles of media-independence and accessibility. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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