Re: ACTION-128: Draft @summary voting text in conjunction with PF

Steven Faulkner wrote:
> Hi maciej,
> I am concerned that if the current wording of the spec is accepted we 
> have a situation where one W3C specification - WCAG 2.0  encourages the 
> use of the summary attribute, while the W3C html 5 specification 
> discourages it.

I've done a quick search, I can't find the text you mentioned:

$ curl -s http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/ | grep summary | wc -l
0

> For my part, if the HTML WG and WAI could reach a mutual stance on this, 
> then consensus within the HTML WG would have a better chance of being 
> reached without the need for a vote.

+1

I will note that I would not consider it to be a problem if HTML 5 were 
consistent with the future direction WCAG 2.0 successors are intending 
to take, as opposed to what might be stated today.  I mean that in the 
same sense that HTML 5 has a (select few, intentional) differences from 
HTML 4.

> regards
> stevef

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