On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, Shelley Powers wrote: > > Ian is fully aware of the issues, reasons, and so on. If he isn't I > suggest he spend time searching on @summary in these lists. Maybe I missed an important e-mail. Could you point me to the e-mail that shows the reasoning and data behind the idea that including and continuing to encourage authors to use the summary="" attribute would improve overall accessibility of the Web beyond the status quo? The position argued, in detail, with data [1] to support the current text in the specification is that encouraging the summary="" attribute to be used actually harms the overall accessibility of the Web. To my knowledge, nobody has provided a sound counter-argument to this. If I have missed such a counter-argument, please send me a link. The e-mail cited above includes explicit statements regarding the kind of data and explanations that would lead to a substantial change in the document I am editing. [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Jul/0148.html -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'Received on Monday, 27 July 2009 02:54:04 GMT
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