Re: Is the Alt Attribute Dead? - Article on Updated F65

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Katie Haritos-Shea GMAIL wrote:
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> I am first going to make a comment about F65 (because that is the focus of
> my concern), and I will review the rest of the email, and comment later.
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> The important thing about F65 - yes, it is a failure technique - but failure
> techniques are what evaluation and repair tool vendors build their tools
> around - to identify conformance/non-conformance. And, in that respect,
> failures are one of the most important kind of techniques we provide. Having
> worked for such a tool vendor, and (like all of us) utilized these tools at
> various times, their ability to impact the application of WCAG is
> tremendous.

Yes, thanks for re-iterating the perspective of the tool vendors.

> I share similar concerns about title, and validation, as well as our
> approach to the new techniques - that they do not kill access features that
> enjoy wide support now. This is a very hard and delicate balance to
> transition to new(ish) technologies. And frankly, I am concened about our
> (working groups) ability to provide good guidance. I know we *can* find a
> correct balance,

We will. I have confidence in all of us. We are making progress and are 
opening up the discussion. Jons article is a part of that, as people 
will start to think, 'Oh, there more than 1 way to implement *-a11y 
feature' and so on.

Thanks

Josh

Received on Monday, 14 April 2014 09:53:38 UTC