- From: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:00:46 -0400
- To: HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
The HTML-A11Y Task Force Face to Face offers the following candidate resolution for adoption by the TF. Discussion in email is welcome--simply reply to this message. This resolution will appear on our teleconference agenda this Thursday. Also, a WBS survey will shortly be announced where you may vote on it. RESOLUTION: The HTML-A11Y Task Force supports the change proposal to remove the image heuristics paragraph from the img Element Section of the HTML specification as detailed at: http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/ChangeProposals/ImageHeuristics. RATIONALE: Key points raised at the F2F included: Image heuristics text should be stricken from the HTML spec, because it gives the message that this is viable now, and a reasonable substitute for @alt. Neither is true. Should image heuristics become useful in the future then we might support it but not at present. Not putting it in the spec will not cause anyone not to do it if they were going to do it ... Filling in the attribute is not something the spec should be doing. We would not normally take time to object that this exists even though it goes beyond what a spec needs to provide, but we are concerned that it could mislead authors into believing they can rely on this when the current state of technology does not support that. Also consult minutes from the F2F: http://www.w3.org/2010/04/06-html-a11y-minutes.html http://www.w3.org/2010/04/07-html-a11y-minutes.html -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina@asterisk.rednote.net Chair, Open Accessibility janina@a11y.org Linux Foundation http://a11y.org Chair, Protocols & Formats Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/wai/pf World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
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