Re: Request to Strengthen the HTML5 Accessibility Design Principle

On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Sam Ruby wrote:
> > 
> > I presume, from your e-mail, that you do not consider this to be 
> > debate:
> > 
> >    http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Jun/0173.html
> > 
> > Could you elaborate on why?
> 
> I believe that the following:
> 
> |  > *	We need summary for backward compatibility.
> |
> |  HTML5 supports implementing the summary="" attribute for backwards
> |  compatibility as currently written.
> 
> ... is an example of what Laura describes as "selectively choosing those 
> points in a subject which happen to favor a position, while ignoring the 
> rest".

What were the points that were ignored here?


> Another, more recent, example is "The browser vendors are the ultimate 
> gatekeepers, of course".

What points does this ignore? I don't understand.


(I've filed the remainder of your e-mail with other summary feedback; I'd 
like to focus on trying to understand exactly what I'm doing wrong before 
responding, since there's no point we responding if the way I do so is 
wrong.)

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Received on Wednesday, 24 June 2009 11:16:12 UTC