Re: no-title CP - remarks

Hi  All,

1. Leif's proposal does not require a re-opening of the decision since it
does not call for the use of title in the absence of alt to be non
conforming. So I suggest that it is inappropriate to consider it in terms of
re-opening, the changes Leif proposes should first be submitted as last call
bugs.
2. There has been consistent consensus within the a11y taskforce and prior
in the WAI-CG guidance on alt, that title not be considered conforming when
alt is absent. If the group wishes to reconsider this in light of Leif's
arguments then the move to re-open the decision would be defunct and I would
withdraw my proposal to re-open.

To resolve this I suggest that we poll the group to find out whether Leif's
proposal changes the consensus of the group.


regards
Stevef


On 11 May 2011 04:09, Leif Halvard Silli
<xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>wrote:

> Leif Halvard Silli, Mon, 9 May 2011 23:41:17 +0200:
>
> > It seems that Webkit's behaviour covered by what HTML5 says about
> > repairing for lack of @alt:
> >
> > ]] While user agents are encouraged to repair cases of missing alt
> > attributes, authors must not rely on such behavior. [[
> >
> > And I think that you could put it in your change proposal that HTML5
> > says that authors are MUST NOT rely on such repair behaviour.
>
> I have now put this into my own change proposal:
>
> http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/ChangeProposals/EnTitle
>
> Main difference from Steve's prop: a warning instead of an error
> message, a different reading of the (browser) facts and other
> justifications (plural) for revisiting the issue.
>
> Leif H Silli
>
>


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