- From: Jan Richards <jan.richards@utoronto.ca>
- Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:20:37 -0500
- To: Jeanne Spellman <jeanne@w3.org>
- CC: AUWG <w3c-wai-au@w3.org>
Hi Jeanne, Fine by me. Cheers, Jan Jeanne Spellman wrote: > This comment to HTML5 from AUWG was rejected. > > HTML5 says (in the section "Authoring tools and markup generators"): > "Authoring tools are expected to come in two broad varieties: tools that > work from structure or semantic data, and tools that work on a > What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get media-specific editing basis (WYSIWYG). The > former is the preferred mechanism for tools that author HTML, since > the structure in the source information can be used to make informed > choices regarding which HTML elements and attributes are most appropriate." > > AUWG Comment: > It seems subjective to prefer an editing mechanism. Perhaps this should > be clearly marked as "informative". > > Status: Rejected > Change Description: no spec change > Rationale: This isn't really subjective, it's simply a fact that you are > more > likely to create accessible (and conforming) documents if you are > working at > the semantic level rather than at a presentational level. I don't think > that > softening this would be productive. Readers should be made very aware of > this > problem with the WYSIWYG approach, at least until such time as the state > of the > art in WYSIWYG editors improves significantly. > > You can view the entire bug report here. > > http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=8522 > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [Bug 8522] Authoring Tool editing mechanisms > Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:17:58 +0000 > From: bugzilla@wiggum.w3.org > To: jeanne@w3.org > References: <bug-8522-2553@http.www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/> > > http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=8522 > > > Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed: > > What |Removed |Added > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Status|NEW |RESOLVED > Resolution| |WONTFIX > > > > > --- Comment #1 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> 2010-01-06 > 12:17:58 --- > EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are > satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to > CLOSED. If > you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, > please > reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML > Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and > suggest > title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue > yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: > http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html > > Status: Rejected > Change Description: no spec change > Rationale: This isn't really subjective, it's simply a fact that you are > more > likely to create accessible (and conforming) documents if you are > working at > the semantic level rather than at a presentational level. I don't think > that > softening this would be productive. Readers should be made very aware of > this > problem with the WYSIWYG approach, at least until such time as the state > of the > art in WYSIWYG editors improves significantly. > > -- Jan Richards, M.Sc. User Interface Design Lead Adaptive Technology Resource Centre (ATRC) Faculty of Information University of Toronto Email: jan.richards@utoronto.ca Web: http://jan.atrc.utoronto.ca Phone: 416-946-7060 Fax: 416-971-2896
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