- From: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:02:39 -0600
- To: Gez Lemon <g.lemon@webprofession.com>
- Cc: Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>, "Gregory J. Rosmaita" <oedipus@hicom.net>, public-html-a11y@w3.org
Gez wrote: > My issue with this is that by addressing the needs of all user groups, > the group that summary was originally intended for will be left out. I > can't imagine many authors writing a long description that contains > things that visually obvious. I don't see the purpose of introducing a > new element to do something that can already be done. The danger is *replacing* the attribute with a new element is that it can harm the user group the attribute was trying to help. A new element could possibly be considered in *addition* to retaining the attribute. But that would be a different change proposal. Best Regards, Laura -- Laura L. Carlson
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