- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 14:21:13 -0700
- To: John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>
- Cc: Shelley Powers <shelleyp@burningbird.net>, public-html@w3.org
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 12:22 PM, John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu> wrote: > Shelley Powers wrote: >> >> The other concern expressed in the IRC, rather emphatically, too, if one >> looks at the exclamation points, is the fact that we don't see >> widespread use of @summary after ten years! Half the web! (Those are >> more or less direct quotes from the discussion.) >> >> Of course, I'm not an accessibility expert, just an interested >> bystander, but I've noticed that--and this is unfortunate--changes in >> general behavior in order to provide support for a minority, in this >> case those with physical challenges, tends to happy very, very slowly. > > > It is also important to note that the PF-WG specifically wrote: > > * We reject the argument that summary should be removed from the > HTML > * specification because it is not implemented on most web sites. We > note > * that accessibility is poorly supported on most web sites. The > wider > * web is not an example of good practice. > > Time and time again, it appears that the HTML WG fail to embrace this > truism. Can you point to where someone made this argument? The argument that I hear most often is that on the pages where @summary *is* used, it has not been used correctly. For example, as I understood it, that was the argument made in [1]. / Jonas [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Jun/0173.html
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