- From: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:00:12 -0500
- To: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
- Cc: Shelley Powers <shelley.just@gmail.com>, HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
Hi Sam, > Question: is there consensus on a summary element being the right long-term > solution? No. It is a proposal. Al Gilman mentioned it before he retired from PF. I picked it up and added the idea of an "open" attribute in an effort to help solve some of the problems that people have raised with @summary. James also has a proposal using <details>. > If so, what is in the critical path to making that happen? The issue needs collaboration between PF and the HTML WG's. > Why is @summary now so important to making that happen? Janina wrote: > We could reinvent it (@summary), but there are more pressing > issues for a11y in HTML 5 where we do not yet have solutions. So, we're > disinclined to reinvent this particular wheel at this particular time. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2009Jun/0017.html Ian wrote: > There > are some proposals for other solutions, but it's not clear that any of > them are compelling (though I may be wrong, and will find out for > sure when I go through the feedback in more detail). Advice from the > chairs about how to proceed on this topic would be useful. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Jun/0581.html Best regards, Laura -- Laura L. Carlson
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