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https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=14937 steve faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Resolution|WONTFIX | --- Comment #2 from steve faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> 2011-12-08 07:40:48 UTC --- (In reply to comment #1) > EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are > satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If > you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please > reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML > Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest > title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue > yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: > http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html > > Status: Rejected > Change Description: no spec change > Rationale: This isn't an antipattern. It is a best practice. If current ATs > don't make it accessible, then I recommend approaching AT vendors and > explaining to them that they're not properly exposing HTML semantics. You obviously misunderstand, this issue has nothing to do with AT, your 'best practice' is based on a fiction that the title attribute content is available to all users via the browser, it is most evidently not. All browser vendors are aware of the issue (http://markmail.org/message/udftstmjgis5bdiu), but have chosen not to do anything about it (for the last ten years). When you have convinced browser vendors (apple, google, opera and microsoft) to fix the issue, i.e. keyboard and touch screen users can access the title attribute content, then you can claim your anti-pattern as a best practice. Until that point it does not deserve to be in the W3C HTML5 spec and its inclusion does a disservice to a range of users. -- Configure bugmail: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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